More than 100 facades to re-create a Sea of Galilee fishing village at the Falstone reserve on the shore of Lake Benmore are being built for a feature film on the life of Jesus Christ, which will be filmed early next year.
For more than 100 years, a stony faced Trooper Jack stood watch over Oamaru's main street guarding two secrets - the 1.5 tonne statue had two left feet and was held in place by just 100mm of mortar.
Volunteers are wanted to help with a January holiday programme in Kurow which last season was popular with people on holiday in the Waitaki Lakes area.
Omarama could expand to meet a growing demand for development.
"Phenomenal interest" is driving plans for a community garden in Oamaru which could be producing fruit, nuts and vegetables on a 4500 sq m site by early next year.
Omarama could expand to meet a growing demand for development.
The conversion of the former Electricity Corporation of New Zealand office block at Otematata into the Lakes Centre community complex is nearing completion, more than two years after the Waitaki District Council bought it for more than $1 million.
Jack's back with a new outlook on life.
Omarama residents will tomorrow celebrate the arrival of their new emergency first response unit after raising about $90,000 during the past year to pay for it.
A family in North Otago is devastated after their eldest child and only son was killed in a motorcycle accident yesterday on their Georgetown dairy farm.
Two people had to sit still in their burning Toyota Camry for fear of being killed by electric shock yesterday after their vehicle crashed into a power pole carrying high-voltage lines near Oamaru.
A lower Waitaki plains farm is believed to have set a record price for land in North Otago, selling for almost $50,000 a hectare.
Car pooling to save on fuel costs may be coming to Oamaru under a plan by the Natural Heritage Society and Waitaki Resource Recovery Trust.
Salmon numbers in the Waitaki River are not recovering like the populations in some other central South Island east coast rivers.
A steamy parade is being promised for this year's Victorian heritage celebrations in Oamaru next month with the North Otago Vintage Machinery Club bringing out traction engines for the event.
The community is rallying around a Georgetown family to help it cope with the death of their 10-year-old eldest son in a motorcycle accident on their dairy farm on Monday.
A new Waitaki District Council bylaw, which will prohibit open backyard fires in urban areas, including burning rubbish, has been made available for public scrutiny.
Three commercial properties in central Oamaru which could be worth more than $1.6 million are being offered for sale by the Waitaki District Council.
The plight of homeless penguins at the Oamaru Creek refuge is upsetting Coastcare environmentalist Lorraine Adams.
Two people had a lucky escape from death when their car crashed into a power pole carrying high voltage lines at Hilderthorpe on SH 1 shortly after 9am today.
