Boat owners seem to have accepted new ramp launch fees introduced by the Waitaki District Council this season for facilities it administers at Waitaki lakes.
A draft plan to resolve water issues in the upper Waitaki catchment west of the Waitaki dam could be made public next month and community feedback sought.
Owners of more than 60 American cars have already paid their fee or registered an interest in coming to Oamaru for the Oamerican Car Show next month.
The arrival from Germany this month of four new transformers at the Transpower high-voltage link at Benmore has given a boost to a $672 million upgrade of the electricity line between the North and South islands.
Heather Familton could be described as a reluctant mayoress when her husband, Alex, was first elected Waitaki Mayor in 2007.
A hospital manger scene had a real live Christmas Day baby yesterday - Tegan McEwan and Kirk Sidon's son Kase, who was the first baby born in Otago this Christmas Day.
A plan for a mobile communications and management centre by North Otago Search and Rescue has been given a major boost with a $20,000 grant from the Meridian Energy Waitaki Community Fund.
First past the post will be the system used by the Waitaki District Council and Oamaru Licensing Trust in the October 2013 local body elections, unless people demand a change.
Penalties may be the only way a "small percentage" of residents in the Waitaki district can be encouraged to reduce their waste, Waitaki Mayor Alex Familton believes.
Fears existing irrigation could be threatened in the upper Waitaki Valley, putting a financial burden on farmers and local people if water resource consents were not renewed, have been partly allayed by decisions released yesterday by Environment Canterbury.
Oamaru will get a big boost next year when work starts on a new business park.
An Oamaru baker has been warned by the Commerce Commission after selling a gluten-free loaf that contained gluten.
The cost of obtaining a resource consent to repair three bridges in the Oamaru Public Gardens has been criticised as "an absolute nonsense" by a Waitaki district councillor.
Three bridges in the Oamaru Public Gardens, damaged by flooding more than a year ago, may finally be repaired if the Waitaki District Council approves funding today.
The Oamaru Wine and Food Festival now has insurance in case it is rained out in February, but is looking to the Waitaki District Council to secure its long-term future.
Seven enforcement officers have been appointed to police freedom camping in the Waitaki district, but will be adopting a "low-key approach".
An Oamaru man yesterday was trying to rectify a scam email sent out to people in his address book appealing for them to send money to him in Spain.
Progress is being made to keep court services in Oamaru and Balclutha after the courthouses in both towns were closed indefinitely last week.
A movie about the life of Christ may be resurrected, despite its makers' facing a court order to settle debts which include the cost of an unfinished film set at Falstone on the shores of Lake Benmore.
Oamaru District Court sittings scheduled for two days next week will now not proceed and Balclutha's two days later in the month have been transferred to the Gore courthouse.
