The closure of the Beaumont Bridge for two days next week, requiring an 80km detour for heavy vehicles, is the first of several closures, though not all will require detours, the New Zealand Land Transport Agency says.
Maritime New Zealand is in the dark as to why the lighthouse at Nugget Point failed last week, but an investigation is under way.
Since the fire that burned through the Gordon family's Circle Hill home on Wednesday night, the Milburn family of five has felt lucky to be alive.
One hundred years after the Catlins River branch line was completed in 1915, a portion of it will be opened again, not for timber, farm supplies, or passengers, but as a walking trail.
An intense thunderstorm that shook houses in Kaka Point on Wednesday night may also have snuffed out the lighthouse at nearby Nugget Point.
No rats or mice have been detected in tracking tunnels in the Catlins recently, suggesting last year's 1080 aerial drops in the area have been a big success.
The community is rallying around a Milburn family that lost ''everything'' in a house fire on Wednesday.
Work to seal the Cross Recreation Centre car park in Balclutha is set to begin after Easter.
Blame it on the rain: the first day scheduled for filming Walt Disney Pictures' Pete's Dragon on the streets of Tapanui, West Otago, did not happen as planned.
Tickets for the Owaka 150th Shipwreck Ball at the Owaka Community Centre are expected to sell out well before the town's jubilee in January 2016.
Hundreds packed streets, cemeteries, parks and halls across South Otago on Saturday to honour the day that forged New Zealand's national identity.
West Otago residents came out to pay their respects to the fallen at Tapanui, Heriot and Dunrobin services on Saturday.
It rained on the parade to begin 2015 The Anzac Connection in Balclutha, but Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay said it did not dampen the spirits.
The diary of a World War 1 veteran from Tapanui is one of the source materials in a vastly different annual performance from the West Otago Theatrical Society this winter.
A 15KM loop cycle trail at Lawrence could be completed by next summer if the Department of Conservation approves the opening of a track through historic Goldfields Park.
Invercargill's loss is Tapanui's gain, after the decision was made to continue filming Pete's Dragon in West Otago rather than move to Southland.
West Otago residents will end their wait for the first Anzac Day dawn service in Tapanui in memory by spending the night under the stars.
A parade of military and war-era vehicles, horses, and more than 200 marchers, will mark the 100th year after the landing at Gallipoli of Anzac forces as it winds through the streets of Balclutha on April 26.
Speed limits need not have been posted in Tapanui, West Otago, during filming of Walt Disney Pictures' Pete's Dragon on Saturday.
The police national dive team has discoverd an oil slick during its search of Curio Bay this morning, after possible car wreckage was found washed up in the area during the weekend.
