Despite already having a good base of snow and heavy snowfalls expected this week, Awakino Skifield, near Kurow, will open later than scheduled this year, because of damage sustained in floods earlier this week.
A document that would see conservationists and land-owners in the Mackenzie Country put aside differences on the development of a swathe of high country land is being seen as a ''template'' for the rest of New Zealand.
Councillors in Waitaki may gain almost $2000 in salary under planned local government pay structures, while members of the district's community boards will have their pay packets reduced.
Federated Farmers say huge rate rises for rural properties in Waitaki this year could have been mitigated had concerns raised by farmers been heeded sooner.
Waitaki Boys' High School rector Paul Jackson is now six months into his role as head of one of North Otago's most prestigious schools but it took less than an hour for pupils to understand what makes the man tick - and it was all down to the school's art class.
Pubs and supermarkets across New Zealand could soon be taking delivery of beer made in Oamaru, after the Auckland-based Scotts Brewing Company announced it would leave the North Island, and set up a new, bigger operation in North Otago.
A sea search and rescue operation was launched yesterday, after emergency services received reports of distress flares being activated close to the shoreline.
Tuesday's search and rescue operation to find a suspected downed aircraft off the North Otago coast might have been prompted by Oamaru residents noticing flares being fired into the air just hours after being stolen from a fishing boat.
A two-hour manhunt in Herbert Forest ended in misery for four alleged car thieves yesterday when they drove down a dead-end road at Waianakarua during a police pursuit.
Two years ago a geological report said parts of the North Otago township of Moeraki were at risk from landslips, and designated homes and land sections as being in a ''natural hazard zone''. Just how ''natural'' some of the latest land movements in Moeraki are remains a bone of contention for some locals. Andrew Ashton reports.
About 100 people, many decked out in period costume, turned out to welcome the return of steam power to Oamaru yesterday, after a six-year absence.
School pupils yesterday started using new, high-tech whiteboards for the first time following the opening of a new $600,000 teaching wing at Oamaru Intermediate School (OIS).
Waitaki district residents have just two weeks left to add to the thousands of old television sets that have already been recycled as part of the Government's TV TakeBack programme.
Plans to bring extra money into the Lake Tekapo township by redeveloping its waterfront and town centre are going ahead without public consultation, according to some residents in the Mackenzie district.
A scheme pioneered in the United Kingdom that allows health professionals to prescribe books to help patients understand health conditions has been launched in Waitaki.
The Waitaki District Council decided yesterday to raise its rates take for 2013-14 by 3.9%.
Pupils at a school in Oamaru regularly have to cycle to school through knee-deep floodwater and even though one boy has already fallen into the water, safety concerns over alternative routes mean children must continue to risk a soaking until the problem is fixed.
A new off-road section of the Alps 2 Ocean (A2O) cycle trail is expected to be open to cyclists by Christmas, after the Community Trust of Mid and South Canterbury announced it would provide $100,000 to take the trail off the beaten track.
Steampunk enthusiasts from the United States are set to ''beam in'' live to Oamaru this weekend for the town's annual Steampunk Festival.
Organisers of the Oamaru on Fire carnival say that despite the success of the inaugural event last year, even bigger things have been planned for this year's carnival tomorrow.
