For 30 years, Kurow second-hand bookshop owner Derek Workman has sourced reading material from anywhere he can get it, but after amassing a staggering 40,000 books, the rise of technology and the increasing use of e-readers is putting an end to his work.
Riding bucking bulls and broncos is pretty nerve-racking at the best of times, but at the Waimate Rodeo yesterday Oamaru teenager Hayden Tisdall also had the added pressure of riding in front of a home crowd and living up to a family tradition.
Oamaru residents, organisations and businesses are being urged to revert to the barter system and trade with their time rather than their money.
Plans to resume passenger flights out of Oamaru Airport may not go ahead, due to fears for the longevity of the proposal.
While most 60th birthday parties might be stately affairs, Aucklander Dorothea Lewis wanted to celebrate hers a little more adventurously - and becoming the first person to complete an official tour of the Alps 2 Ocean cycle trail seemed just the ticket.
Just a week after receiving confirmation that Oamaru Airport could be used to host drag races, the Whitestone Rodders club has already pencilled in a date for Oamaru's first official quarter mile race in 12 years.
Extra enforcement officers will be patrolling the shores around the Waitaki Lakes during the holiday period to ensure there is no repeat of accidents like the one in January that left three members of a Christchurch family hospitalised following a boat collision on Lake Middleton.
Christmas markets in North Otago are increasing in popularity, with holiday markets in both Oamaru and Kurow expecting more stallholders than in previous years.
Oamaru residents are seeking out exotic holiday destinations so as to spend Christmas and New Year in the sun.
An Otematata schoolgirl will today donate her hair to be used as a wig for people suffering from leukaemia.
Plans to expand the Kurow Museum could result in 40,000 second-hand books being provided to prisoners in New Zealand prisons and people in underprivileged areas around the world.
New directors were yesterday appointed to two Waitaki District Council subsidiary companies, due to the retirement of long-serving directors at Whitestone Roading and Tourism Waitaki.
A week-long party to celebrate 150 years since the creation of the Oamaru Town Board began in earnest yesterday with a picnic at the Oamaru Public Gardens and will finish with residents rocking out with Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei.
Anglers will still be able to land prize trophy fish from the Tekapo canal when sections of the waterway close for 14 weeks in the new year.
New reliable parking meters will be installed around central Oamaru by June next year, replacing the existing malfunctioning pay and display machines.
For the past two days the water at Oamaru Harbour has changed colour, and no-one has yet been able to explain why.
''Tired'' and ''immature'' prank phone calls have no place on the airwaves, according to regional radio stations in Otago.
A Texas oil company which is expected to start exploratory oil and gas drilling off the Oamaru coast has been told the public expects it to ensure the environmental safety of a coast that is home to a yellow-eyed penguin colony at Bushy Beach and a colony of little blue penguins at Cape Wanbrow.
Criminals in North Otago appear to be seeing the error of their ways, judging from the success of the restorative justice process in the district.
After almost a whole life spent at Duntroon School as pupil, teacher and finally principal, Bev Conlan yesterday treated her final year 8 pupils to a celebratory lunch, before ending a 32-year teaching career and a 55-year association with the school.
