Hamish MacLean

After thousands of hours of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating, Stephen Murray will not let his time machine crumble to dust.

New rules and an increasing workload are stretching the Waitaki District Council’s building team, despite the council employing "more staff than ever", Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.

Responsible cat ownership and whether keeping bees and roosters in town should be allowed are some of the issues the Waitaki District Council could tackle in a bylaw review under way.

Season two of the "screaming peacock drama" on South Hill has begun for  an Oamaru woman.

An apparent compromise has been reached on the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony's new red fences, which this week created a social media brouhaha.

Workers owed money for rest breaks and overtime at an Oamaru meat works have won an ''overdue and well-deserved'' victory, the Otago Southland Meat Workers' Union president says.

Moo-ve over Waimumu, East Otago could become the epicentre for southern rural celebrations from today.

New corrugated iron fences at Oamaru Harbour have some Waitakians seeing red.

Getting "the basics" right, job growth and attracting families to the Waimate district will be Waimate Mayor Craig Rowley’s goals for the next three years.

Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says the district’s voters have shown confidence in the direction councillors set over the last term.

Next year’s potato "roll off" could benefit from a steeper street, organisers say.

Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says he is “very pleased”  with today’s election win in the mayoral race in the Waitaki district.

Whitestone Contracting Ltd’s return to the Waitaki District Council has jumped about 35% this year.

Hamish MacLean talks to helicopter pilot Greg Isbister (32) about returning to Oamaru and his continued pursuit of "good wine, good food, good people".

The Waitaki District Council supports the Waitaki Resource Recovery Trust, that much is clear.

The Dunedin man who died in a crash on State Highway 1 north of Oamaru early on Sunday was a ‘‘great mate’’ and a ‘‘bloody good truck driver’’.

Many of the historic buildings in Oamaru's Victorian Precinct could provide more attractive retail spaces with a little work, the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust operations manager says.

The milk tanker driver who died in a crash on State Highway 1 north of Oamaru early on Sunday was a Dunedin man, police said last night.