Throughout Otago, people with a love of food and fresh produce are turning out amazing products. For some it is just a hobby; for others it has turned into their livelihood. David Bruce reports.
Growing vegetables or fruit in your backyard has made a comeback. David Bruce learns how its done.
The Government will be asked this year to proceed with legislation formalising the Mackenzie Agreement, the result of more almost three years of negotiations to avoid continued conflict over development in the high country region.
Throughout Otago, people with a love of food and fresh produce are turning out amazing products. For some it is just a hobby, for others it has turned into their livelihood. David Bruce reports.
Kurow's Hay family has had to move on, but their replacement is delighting children who visit the Waitaki Valley town these holidays.
The pace is expected to quicken from the new year on construction of a $214 million dairy plant at Glenavy when installation of processing machinery and plant starts.
For the first time, four Waimate families have a name for their camp compound at Lake Aviemore, even though one family has been camping around there for 25 years.
A Christchurch couple and their dog are not rushing their tour of the southern South Island - with their Russian-made Ural motorcycle and sidecar they cannot.
Junior rugby will be getting a boost from milk under a new fundraising project by the North Otago Rugby Football Union.
Worried frowns turned to happy smiles when motorists who stopped at a police checkpoint in Oamaru yesterday morning received Christmas treats instead of tickets.
The suspected arson of a fishing boat at Hampden is being investigated by Oamaru police, who have two ''lines of inquiry'' to follow up, Senior Constable Anton Perham said earlier this week.
An Omarama co-response medical unit member fears a life could be lost because the unit is not being called out to medical emergencies to provide care until an ambulance arrives, which could take an hour or more.
Right: PHOTOS: DAVID BRUCE
Attendence at Oamaru's annual community Christmas dinner was one of the biggest in the seven years it has been run, while Waimate staged its first, which attracted more than 50 diners.
About 700 objections have been received to 43 proposed changes in electoral boundaries for next year's general election, but how many relate to the Waitaki-Dunedin North alteration is not yet known.
When Ethel Gray retired in 2011, she never thought she would be back running the Whalan Lodge in Kurow again.
Two Israeli trampers rescued from Aoraki/Mt Cook National Park yesterday after a plea for help by text message are on their way to Queenstown, only a little worse for wear, to celebrate New Year.
Two new community members have been appointed to a community-based Upper Waitaki committee which is involved in management of water.
Emily Petersen (6, right) and Maddison Robb (4, next to her) set off two of 150 party poppers to celebrate Christmas in the Park at Takaro Park in Oamaru yesterday.
A resource consent application has been filed for a small dredge to suck gold from the Maerewhenua River, with pressure mounting for people to be have a say on the project.
For the first time, plans have been made to warn and shift campers if Waitaki lakes suddenly flood during the Christmas-New Year holiday.
