Waitaha wants a heritage order over an escarpment in the Waiareka Valley, which could have a major impact on the proposed Holcim (New Zealand) Ltd $400 million cement plant development.
A $3 million heritage tourism project, which uses high technology to portray the stories of early Oamaru, could boost the local economy by $16.4 million over a five-year period, and create 43 jobs.
The Waitaki Dam celebrates its 75th birthday later this year and Meridian Energy Ltd is appealing for help from the community to mark the occasion.
Traffic lights at Oamaru's most dangerous intersection are on the blink again.
"It feels like a dream," is an Oamaru family's reaction to being back in their own home after finding out the Thames Highway property was uninhabitable, shortly after they bought it.
Wet weather is delaying a start on coastal protection work to stop erosion and rubbish being washed out of the former Hampden landfill.
Today is the last day for Waihemo community groups to be nominated for the TrustPower Waihemo Community Awards.
It may be early days, but Kurow Golf Club president Bruce Nehoff has been amazed at the response from former members to plans for the club's 75th anniversary celebrations next year.
A North Otago community-financed company owning a wind farm generating electricity on the Kakanui Mountains is the vision behind Waitaki Wind, which could start monitoring two sites within a month.
"Positive" to "disappointed" were the range of reactions yesterday to an Environment Court decision which clears the way for Holcim (New Zealand) Ltd to build a $400 million cement plant in the Waiareka Valley, near Weston.
Arborcultural students from Dunedin are this week getting hands-on experience at pruning trees by working on memorial oaks in the Waiareka Valley.
Waitaki Valley rural women intend to maintain pressure to ensure construction starts on new twin bridges across the Waitaki River at Kurow in less than 18 months.
Workers at Summit Wool Spinners have had their hours extended after a "small but promising increase" in orders, reversing the trend which led to 50 voluntary redundancies at the Oamaru mill earlier this year.
Residents in a rural residential subdivision close to a cement plant Holcim (NZ) Ltd wants to build in the Waiareka Valley have won a small victory in the Environment Court, in the form of a condition for increased visual screening of the proposed plant.
In its decision to approve a new $400 million cement plant near Weston, the Environment Court said cement manufacturing was anticipated in the valley, but it was the scale and adverse effects that needed to be balanced and considered.
Twizel's 40-year history as a construction town and now a permanent town and holiday spot is to be recorded on film in an $80,000 project.
Attempts to retain visits to Omarama by the Kurow doctor were not successful, Ahuriri Community Board chairman Craig Dawson said this week.
The Waitaki Development Board has been told to talk to the Waihemo Community Board before replacing any pictorial signs advertising the attractions of small towns in the south of the district.
A film company still has some breathing space before time runs out for an expansive set it has built for a biblical epic, Kingdom Come, at the Falstone camping reserve next to Lake Benmore.
Grandpa Allan and Grandma Gill want to teach you how to grow your own food, and Auntie Annie will show you how to get it ready for your table.
