A local Bill which seeks to clarify the status of Oamaru land the Waitaki District Council wants to develop into its Forrester Heights residential subdivision has passed its first reading in Parliament.
Oamaru's historic area could get greater protection, with a proposal to list it in the Waitaki district plan.
Duntroon might finally get a lower speed limit under a review carried out in the district by the Waitaki District Council.
Eight tonnes of elephant flew into place yesterday at Oamaru Harbour, the second piece of a Steampunk-themed playground being created at Friendly Bay on a former carnival site.
A mother and her two children escaped shocked but unhurt from their rented home in north Oamaru yesterday morning just before a heater's gas cylinder vented and a fire spread rapidly through the house.
The Craig Fountain in the Oamaru Gardens might not be restored so it flows again, with some Waitaki district councillors wary of pulling it to bits then possibly finding it could not be rebuilt.
Land contaminated with arsenic from an old timber treatment plant on the Oamaru foreshore is to get remedial work so it can be landscaped and used for recreation as part of the Oamaru Harbour redevelopment.
The Waitaki District Council is considering retaining its present number of councillors and its two community boards, including a separate councillor for a ward that fails to meet average population requirements.
More than a mere garden area, the Waitaki Community Gardens have won the top award in the TrustPower Waitaki district community awards, announced last night in the Opera House.
Spectacular offshore power-boat racing will return to Oamaru at the end of the month when a round of the South Island marathon series is run just off the town's foreshore.
A new tunnel-canal hydro electricity scheme on the lower Waitaki River is still in the medium to long-term plan of Meridian Energy, despite the cancellation of two of its other schemes.
Water may start flowing again from the historic Craig Fountain at the entrance to the Oamaru Gardens if the Waitaki District Council approves a project to restore it.
A tapu has been lifted and the area blessed where the body of Czech national Dagmar (Dasha) Pytlickova was found last month at Waihaorunga, south of Waimate.
The Waitaki Ski Club has received a welcome boost for its Awakino skifield as it prepares for the new season.
About1500 parents and children are expected to crowd on to rugby grounds created on the Kurow racecourse for the annual Meridian Energy Kurow rugby family fun day today.
A water management plan for the upper Waitaki catchment west of the Waitaki dam has been endorsed by Environment Canterbury commissioners after more than a year of work by a community-based committee.
Sports and clubs using Centennial Park and the Waitaki Community Recreation Centre will get the chance to set up a sports partnership to benefit all codes.
Work has finished on protecting Oamaru Creek banks and bridges in the Oamaru Gardens from flooding, allowing the bridges to remain open.
Builders in North Otago face delays in inspections because the Waitaki District Council faces a prolonged staffing shortage in its building control team.
The Kakanui Camping Ground saga is going back to a further hearing on whether it can be granted a resource consent to operate, although this time the hearing's scope is restricted.
