Daniel Birchfield

Motorists are being advised to exercise caution while driving on State Highway 83 as recent rainfall continues to take its toll on the Waitaki district.

From Mexico to Waitaki, life has changed dramatically over the years for Gabriela Williamson.

Uncertainty surrounds the future of the Duntroon Volunteer Fire Brigade, which is struggling to attract numbers and may fold if new recruits are not found soon.

Cases of doctors working more than 60 hours straight at Oamaru Hospital are "not acceptable", its chief executive says.

Oamaru Hospital’s chief executive says Waitaki District Health Services cannot continue to haemorrhage money and ways to cut costs and become more efficient need to be found quickly.

Court services may return to the historic Oamaru courthouse ''early in the new year'', Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.

Lake Ohau Alpine Village’s drinking water supply urgently needs an upgrade that must be carried out next year to meet requirements under government legislation.

Once considered the largest water wheel in Australasia, the recently restored and installed Phoenix Mill water wheel has been handed back to the Oamaru community.

Ongoing thefts from a fundraising stall set up to support members of the local Air Training Corps has left the organisation angry and disappointed.

An Oamaru woman being sought by police in relation to the alleged  theft of a 4WD in Oamaru at knifepoint on Monday was a passenger in the vehicle, it has been confirmed.

A proposed rise in rail safety regulatory fees would stretch the Oamaru Steam and Rail Society’s budget  close to breaking point, its general manager says.

Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher has criticised the Waitaki District Health Services board for the way it has communicated its review of Oamaru Hospital's kitchen to the public.

With the final stage of its infrastructure construction project complete, the North Otago Irrigation Company is now in a position to focus on selling its remaining $15 million of shares.

Curiosity may have killed that cat, but fortunately that was not the fate of an Oamaru child who got his head and arm stuck in a cat door yesterday morning.

A recently formed Oamaru group is determined to help the kitchen at Oamaru Hospital survive, despite it looking increasingly likely the facility will not be retained.

Despite a total deficit of more than $230,000 during the 2017-18 financial year, the chairman of the company that owns and operates Oamaru Hospital is confident it can turn its balance sheet around.

The construction of 18 villas at Observatory Village Lifecare in Oamaru is scheduled to be completed in March, four years before it was anticipated they would be needed.