Daniel Birchfield

When Valerie Simpson (nee Hore) inadvertently came close to seeing her soon-to-be husband just minutes before exchanging vows on their wedding day, she had to cover her eyes.

Mountain Biking North Otago has abandoned track development work at Cape Wanbrow until at least next winter.

A 71-year-old man faces a slew of charges after his dangerous driving resulted in numerous calls to police.

When Tracy Walker finishes her tenure as principal at Waitaki Girls’ High School in Oamaru this year, one of the things she will miss the most is the "Waitaki way".

A Maheno man who died while gathering paua off the East Otago coast on Tuesday had more than four decades of diving experience and was a lifelong "hunter-gatherer," his son says.

The person who bought a stolen ride-on lawnmower from a social media page has been asked to contact police.

Desperate attempts were made to resuscitate a man found unresponsive in the water near Shag Point on Tuesday, police say.

Patient transfers from Oamaru Hospital are a complicated process that require extensive co-ordination, about 50 members of the public were told at a community health forum in Oamaru last night.

Unsecured creditors are owed more than $800,000 after an Oamaru construction company was placed in liquidation earlier this year, a second report into the company's financial affairs says.

Oamaru can sustain a movie theatre - but not one that shows movies seven days a week, the owner of the former Limelight Cinema building says.

This year's Oamaru Christmas Parade will celebrate not only the festive season but also the Waitaki district's diversity, its organiser says.

Deborah Grant expected to be met with bursts of red when she unlocked one of the greenhouses at the growing business she owns with her husband Callum this week.

Ongoing thefts from compost and manure stalls in Oamaru continue to cause a big stink in North Otago, so much so that one has moved to a more secure location, and others are to follow suit.

The Waitaki Woodturners' Guild building at Oamaru Racecourse has been burgled for a second time in six years.