Hamish MacLean

After a trip from Dunedin to Oamaru fraught with trouble two sailors needed some local know-how to get into Oamaru Harbour at the weekend.

The Waitaki District Council appears set to restrict the pedestrianisation of Oamaru’s Harbour St to  the warmer months. 

With two fewer nests at Moeraki this year, Penguin Rescue volunteers would be "thrilled" if last year’s breeding success was repeated at mainland New Zealand’s largest yellow-eyed penguin colony.

Waitaki Deputy Mayor Melanie Tavendale has tried to scrap a limit on the number of cats pet owners are permitted from proposed new rules for the district.

At Lake Wakatipu the top unlimited class boats in the 2017 World Jet Boat Marathon could hit an eye-watering top speed of 225kmh.

A vast majority of Harbour St businesses are in favour of pedestrian-only access to the Oamaru historic street, a Waitaki District Council survey shows.

After the adult artists had all but left the Oamaru Stone Symposium at Friendly Bay yesterday, children were still chiselling away at their blocks of  limestone.

After a slow start to breeding this year, the Oamaru Creek little blue penguin colony is catching up to its popular counterpart across Oamaru Harbour.

With a new minimum flow regime in effect, Waitaki irrigators and Meridian Energy signed an agreement last  week to manage water levels in the lower Waitaki River.

How fast can a moa go?

A third section of the Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail was closed this week.

A long-time little blue penguin campaigner is calling for the removal of sand sausages at Oamaru Harbour.

With the tourist season approaching, access to the "busy little village'' of Moeraki remains less than ideal, Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.

The trust formed to protect the "extremely iconic and valuable" land in the Ohau, Mackenzie and Omarama basins is ready to put boots on the ground, its chairwoman says.

How it is decided whether to publicly notify a consent application in the Waitaki district will require further discussion, Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says.

The Mackenzie District Council expects a seamless switch when current planning and regulations manager Suzette van Aswegen assumes the council’s top job in November.

A replacement for outgoing Tourism Waitaki general manager Jason Gaskill could be named before Christmas.

The Ministry of Education "owes" Fenwick Primary School "at least one classroom", the school’s principal says.