Daniel Birchfield

Oamaru has lost one of its links to the Antarctic, after two huts once used on the frozen continent were recently relocated to a Canterbury township.

Police are investigating a large blaze, that destroyed a residential property in the South Canterbury township of Glenavy yesterday.

A man has been spoken to by police after he allegedly approached a girl in Kurow in an attempt to lure her into his vehicle on Tuesday.

The driver of a vehicle struck by a train north of Oamaru yesterday had stopped with the intention of picking up rubbish dumped near the railway track, police say.

A Kurow girl is being praised by police for her actions after a man allegedly attempted to lure her into his vehicle on Tuesday with the promise of seeing puppies.

More than 20 firefighters continued to contain a vegetation fire near Dunback in East Otago yesterday, four days after the large blaze first broke out.

More than 20 firefighters remain on the ground at a large blaze near Dunback in East Otago this morning.

Oamaru's Holly Tangney hopes her son Rome (3) got as much enjoyment out of being on horseback at North Otago Riding for the Disabled as she did she was young.

New Network Waitaki chief executive Geoff Douch says the electricity industry is arguably changing more rapidly that is has ever done before and believes the Oamaru-based company is in a good...

The potential impact of erosion from the Clay Cliffs on the water quality of Lake Benmore is set to be explored in more detail.

A vacancy on the Waitaki District Health Services board of directors that will be created when chairman Chris Swann steps down from the role at the end of June will not be filled until the end of...

A large fire at a rural property near Dunback in East Otago has been brought under control, but will continue to be monitored over the coming days to ensure it does not reignite.

Plans to utilise a pair of sections from the original Kurow bridges may still go ahead, albeit in a slightly different form from what was originally proposed.

Annual visitor numbers to Aoraki Mt Cook National Park have exceeded one million for the first time, Department of Conservation (Doc) visitor sites data shows.

A search warrant executed at an Oamaru address on Tuesday failed to locate a North Otago man with warrants out for his arrest.

Oamaru police are investigating after two vehicles were unlawfully entered and items stolen on Monday afternoon.