The Ranfurly Curling Club celebrates 75 years of curling this weekend at Naseby, and centre of the celebrations will be a stone used in New Zealand's first curling event, held at Woodhaugh Gardens in Dunedin in the 1880s.
Rustlers appear to be operating in the Tarras area, with 60 top merino breeding ewes with a combined value of $24,000 taken from a property on Jolly Rd.
Unlawful users of wireless networks are operating again in Central Otago, and police are warning computer owners to be aware.
An Alexandra man is in a critical but stable condition in Dunedin Hospital after the vehicle he was driving crashed in Letts Gully Road on Thursday night.
Lawyer Tim Cadogan has been elected to the Central Otago District Council's Vincent Community Board, representing the Earnscleugh-Manuherikia ward.
The national motor caravan rally held at Cromwell over Easter Weekend was worth more than $1 million to Central Otago's economy, according to the results of an economic impact survey just released.
Getting back to grass roots policing is the main reason three Alexandra police officers applied to join the Central Otago community policing team.
Cornish Point Developments' application for a five-allotment subdivision across Lake Dunstan from Cromwell has been turned down by the Central Otago District Council planning committee.
Jim Harrington and his wife Helen, of Cromwell, have first-hand knowledge of what it is like moving to a country far removed from the New Zealand lifestyle.
The cream of New Zealand curlers are in Naseby this weekend for the fourth annual New Zealand Curling Championships.
When Malcolm and Sandy Potter and their young family from Cromwell moved to Thailand 10 years ago as missionaries for World Outreach, they planned to teach English to the Karen people in the northern highlands.
Seasonal Solutions was not exploiting Vanuatuan workers, director Basil Goodman said yesterday.
A Queenstown company is unlikely to be prosecuted by the Central Otago District Council despite having a schist-quarrying operation shut down yesterday because it had breached district plan rules.
Roxburgh residents will have to wait a little longer for a decision on their proposed new swimming pool.
A retrospective resource consent application to cover a large quarry established off Fraser Dam Rd at Earnscleugh is expected to be lodged with the Central Otago District Council by the end of next week.
It was an early start for the people of Ranfurly and surrounding districts on Sunday morning as families gathered at Kieran and Lisa O'Neill's woolshed for a live filming for the children's TV programme What Now.
Community groups and individuals will find it a little easier next year to apply for funds from the Central Lakes Trust.
A lot of preparation goes on before the children's television show What Now goes to air on a Sunday morning.
A child-care centre being built in Cromwell is likely to ease the burden on the other three centres operating in the town.
Dillon Teneti (16) is passionate about music, and that passion was rewarded on Saturday night when he won the APRA lyric writer's award at the SmokefreeRockquest in Wanaka.
