The Waitaki District Council is moving to head off an operating deficit at the end of this financial year after indications of a loss in its quarterly report considered at its meeting yesterday.
Twizel beekeeper Ryan Craig is buzzing about his third trek the length of New Zealand carrying a heavy, solid totara wooden cross.
About 200 submissions poured in just before deadline on the Waitaki District Council's 2012-22 draft long-term plan, meaning all three meeting days will be needed to consider what ratepayers have had to say.
The search for missing Dunedin man David Palmer will now depend on search and rescue and other volunteers after the official search in the Ahuriri Conservation Park was scaled back as police no longer expect to find him alive.
The theft of more than 200 lambs from two Otekaieke farms, near Kurow, has prompted warnings to rural communities to be vigilant and report suspicious behaviour.
A new, cheaper roading maintenance contract has brought a windfall for Waitaki ratepayers, although its district council's own company has lost major income.
The search for Dunedin man David Palmer, missing for nine days, has been scaled down after no success at the weekend in locating him in the Dingle Burn area of the Ahuriri Conservation Park.
It is a week today since Dunedin man David Palmer went missing after parking his vehicle and setting out from the former Birchwood Station in the Ahuriri Valley towards the Dingle Burn Track.
The Waitaki River salmon fishery has received a boost after more than 2000 salmon smolt were released this week in a bid to increase stocks.
The week-long extensive search for missing Dunedin man David Palmer has highlighted the need for a new command unit for North Otago Search and Rescue, a $150,000 project started last year, the organisation's vice-chairman says.
Future demand for increasingly rare business land, particularly for major developments, is one of the reasons behind planning the first major change in more than 15 years to where and how businesses can operate in Oamaru.
Tenants in Waitaki District Council-owned community housing units face rent increases of between $6 and $18 a week from July.
New signs on remote roads around the Waitaki district have had the spin-off effect of publicising a policy review by the Waitaki District Council which will determine maintenance of its roading network.
Farmers are opposing what they say are "extortionate rural rate increases" proposed by the Waimate District Council.
About 2000 baby salmon will be released into the Waitaki River next week, the first step in a project to improve the river's fishery.
The Presbyterian church in Hampden will undergo a test run this month as a future community arts, music, cultural and exhibition centre.
Water schemes throughout the Waitaki district could get almost $1.4 million back between them from the Waitaki District Council, comprising development levies and interest collected since 2006.
Waitaki Mayor Alex Familton and Waitaki District Council committee chairpersons will keep a casting vote to exercise at meetings when voting is deadlocked.
A water management plan for the upper Waitaki catchment west of the Waitaki dam has now been finalised by a community committee set up by Environment Canterbury and the Waitaki and Mackenzie district councils.
The Waitaki District Council's long-term budget and rates projections will get live television exposure for the first time on Oamaru station 45 South tomorrow.
