Enough interest in shares in a new irrigation scheme in the Waimate area has been reached for it to proceed and the chance to invest has been extended to allow more to subscribe.
Ratepayers could have to pay significantly higher rates if the New Zealand Transport Agency changes the way it subsidises local roads.
Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs could be one way of describing the approach of some Waitaki District Council councillors to developing a policy on cats.
The cheap price of carbon credits has prompted the Waitaki District Council to consider buying some to insulate itself from future price rises.
Some North End business owners are angry they will lose car parks to new pedestrian crossing lights, despite extensive consultation on the design.
Visitors and residents in the Waitaki catchment and Mackenzie Basin are being surveyed as part of research by two community committees into setting water-quality standards for the two regions.
No decision has yet been made on whether two historic lime kilns on an Enfield farm being converted to dairying should be rebuilt after the tops were removed.
Scott's Own Sea Scouts has been paying full rates on its property at Oamaru Harbour because it slips between legislation allowing sports clubs a 50% discount.
''A level playing field on information'', is how Peter Amyes, chairman of a community group looking at keeping the coastal road between Oamaru and Waianakarua open, describes a planned meeting with the Waitaki District Council.
The cheapest solution also looks the best to upgrade Omarama's water supply to meet drinking water regulations.
Sealing the track into the Oamaru Community Gardens is under way, completing a project about five years in the making.
TwelveSouth Island councils have combined to make a joint plea to Government to ease some of the provisions in its earthquake-prone buildings legislation.
The future of Oamaru's historic Harbour St is being taken out of the ''too hard basket'' after decades of debate.
Pre-loved bikes will get a new lease on life under a project by a new Oamaru community group which wants to promote a healthy lifestyle to children and young people who may not have the opportunity to own their own bike.
Meridian Energy has now sold 10 farm properties in the Waitaki Valley it had planned to use for its Project Aqua power scheme, which it cancelled in 2004.
The deadline is fast approaching to demonstrate enough support to take the next step to build a new irrigation scheme for up to 40,000ha in the Waimate and Opuha areas.
A new North Otago company which will produce traditional English cider next year had its unofficial launch at the historic Totara Estate yesterday, but in a purely non-alcoholic way.
About 500 fake salmon ran down the Waikakahi Stream on Saturday, while anglers chased the real thing in the neighbouring Waitaki River on the last weekend of the salmon fishing season.
Waitaki deputy mayor Hugh Perkins went above and beyond the call of duty yesterday, rescuing a lost cormorant and returning it to Oamaru Harbour.
The biggest changes in the history of the Oamaru Public Gardens children's playground are being proposed in a concept plan produced for public comment by the Waitaki District Council.
