Hamish MacLean

Pohutukawa trees in planter boxes could replace the sycamores the Waitaki District Council removed in Tyne St earlier this year.

Nothing to see here, no drama, "vastly different".

A couch-surfing New Zealand sea lion seen at Kakanui at the weekend is a young male, most likely from Stewart Island, the Department of Conservation says.

Environment-minded Waitakians have lost the ability to recycle almost any plastic.

Trebling the ground rates for a local aviation enthusiast's hangar at Oamaru Airport still offers value for money, the Waitaki District Council says.

The redevelopment of Waitaki's resource recovery park is entering its final stage, forcing the yard's temporary closure this week.

New life has officially been breathed into the 1883 Columba Church in Wansbeck and Ure Sts, on the South Hill of Oamaru.

Hundreds of people in Oamaru, Invercargill and Queenstown spent their Mother's Day morning walking or running for a good cause.

Upcoming work on the 1872 Heritage New Zealand Category 1 Oamaru breakwater will use up the Waitaki District Council's annual budget of $400,000 for accumulated breakwater repairs and maintenance.

There is safety in numbers. And little penguins group together offshore to form "rafts" of birds when they return to the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony at night.

Eggs have arrived at the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony.

Don't take your guns to town, son.

Glen Curry’s photo of a New Zealand fur seal crossing Thames St, in Oamaru, has gone viral on social media.

The sale of the long-vacant, dilapidated Junction Hotel at Oamaru's southern entrance - to a local buyer - is imminent, Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.

Prof Richard Walter peers into the past to learn how people up to 1000 years ago lived, but, he says, his field of archaeology has a vital role to play today. Hamish MacLean digs out the...

Draft master plans for Omarama and Otematata are expected to be approved before the coming local body elections.