David Bruce

A new milk factory at Glenavy will start its first processing season later this year with more milk than it hoped.

A development plan for the Lake Tekapo foreshore will keep moving forward, if Mackenzie District Council councillor and Tekapo resident Murray Cox has his way.

Waitaki District Council-owned Whitestone Contracting has had a major turnaround in fortunes in the first six months of this financial year compared with the corresponding period in the 2012-13 year.

Two Waitaki Valley communities will celebrate on April 4 the first step in ensuring the security of their link across the Waitaki River.

A North Otago farming company's difficulties over dismantling part of two historic lime kilns are a warning to property owners they need to check how old buildings are before interfering with them.

Waimate cyclist Holly Edmondston's outstanding performances won her the supreme award at the Network Waitaki sports awards presented in the Oamaru Opera House last night.

About 210kg of cheese, 890 loaves of bread, secret ingredients and almost nine hours' work later, about 80 volunteers had made the 18,000 cheese rolls the Excelsior Sports Clubs needed to meet this year's orders.

An eight-year effort to plan for the restoration of the 1890s Nicol's Blacksmith Forge in Duntroon, then raise $200,000 for the project, has reached fruition and work is to start next month.

Duntroon is adding another tourist venture to a growing list of attractions in the Waitaki Valley township.

Most Network Waitaki domestic electricity consumers will get a discount of more than $88 or $145, depending on which category they fall under, in a $2 million payout by the power lines company they own through a trust.

Kakanui Camping Ground managers Allan and Christine Jones are looking forward to living in a house after being in a caravan on site for the past decade.

North Otago property owners want to join any united front opposing Government legislation on earthquake-prone buildings.

The future of the Oamaru-Waianakarua coast road may soon be known as a community group seeks ideas to keep it open, 14 years after debate began about closing some sections because of erosion.

An estimated $77 million a year has been pumped into the North Otago economy from irrigation schemes in the Kurow-Duntroon area, $70 million more than if the area had stayed dry.

An irrigation company and a group of its farmer members have created a watersports park open to members of the public, who by paying a small annual subscription, can use a range of watercraft on the man-made lake.