About 500 consumers on the Lower Waitaki water scheme are now enjoying significantly better water quality after a $500,000 upgrade to meet drinking-water standards.
Waihemo residents and businesses are being surveyed before a seminar to discuss and then plan for challenges their community will face in the next decade.
People will next week have the chance to give their views on the future management of water in the lower Waitaki River and Waimate district at a series of public meetings called by an Environment Canterbury committee.
A Twizel farmer's celebration for the Rugby World Cup proved costly when he cut the electricity supply to 560 consumers last weekend.
Oamaru staged the first of auditions around Otago and Southland to find solo artists for the Otago Daily Times and Dunedin City Council's Big Night In community concert.
Otago communities have been urged to get involved in proposed changes by the Otago Regional Council to the way it manages water quality.
Farmers want the Waitaki District Council to be more flexible when it comes to making them install stock underpasses.
Oamaru Hospital is not commenting on a Richmond man's criticism of the treatment he received there after being injured in the head-on crash which killed Timaru businessman Allan Hubbard, but Andy...
Construction could start next year on two bridges across the Waitaki River between Kurow and Hakataramea on SH82 and be completed by 2015 at the latest, but there are still some hurdles to be cleared.
A reduction in the roading subsidy by the New Zealand Transport Agency has been slammed by some Waitaki District Council councillors as another example of rural areas suffering while cities benefit because they have more votes.
An initiative to keep both people and penguins happy around Oamaru Harbour is being set up by the Waitaki Tourism Association.
A sewage treatment scheme for Hampden is on the agenda again, five years after a community group started investigating options for the coastal township.
A special campervan park, already operating at Oamaru's Centennial Park for the Rugby World Cup, has been given formal approval by the Waitaki District Council to operate as a business on what is a recreational reserve.
A second suspicious fire in less than a week, which destroyed another empty holiday home in Moeraki, has the fire service, police and the coastal community worried.
Kurow and Hakataramea communities fear if either of the twin bridges across the Waitaki River between their communities is knocked out by flooding, it could take two to three years to restore the link with a new bridge.
About 200 extras are being sought for Peter Jackson's film The Hobbit when filming is done in the Twizel area in late November and December.
Benhar and Tokoiti ratepayers might get some relief if they have difficulty paying rates for new sewerage schemes in their towns under the Clutha District Council's proposed policy of offering postponements.
A youth camp that last year helped prevent trouble at Otematata during Labour Weekend will not be held this year, but there will be a designated area for young people to camp.
Lighting up a cigarette in a Clutha district public park, playground, sports ground or at a family-orientated event could soon be officially frowned upon.
England will be in a lather during its Rugby World Cup sojourn in Dunedin, thanks to soap made in Oamaru.
