Youth satisfaction with the education, entertainment and employment opportunities in the Waitaki district falls as the district's youth ages, preliminary results from the 2015 Safer Waitaki Youth Survey indicate.
With eight weeks of construction left in Balclutha's $3.2million main street upgrade, Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan met retailers affected by the ongoing work this week.
An empty Housing New Zealand house is for sale in Milton, the fifth house in the town the government department has tried to sell under the first-home ownership scheme, FirstHome.
Picton artist Pita Lagan will return to Oamaru this month to continue carving the steampunk playground's macrocarpas.
Up to eight patients visit the surgeons in the mobile surgical bus every time it stops at Oamaru Hospital.
Figures from Lawrence's rich past loom large on the town's main street.
One of the oldest buildings in Oamaru could have one of the town's freshest faces when the Victorian Heritage Celebrations begin in November, the Oamaru Repertory Society president Bob Avis says.
The Otago Regional Council is prosecuting for incidents that do not warrant a criminal conviction and a different approach is needed, a Clutha District Council councillor says in the wake of three prosecutions for effluent ponding on Clutha properties.
Balclutha Volunteer Fire Brigade chief fire officer Graeme Ferguson (left) takes the keys to the Balclutha brigade's new rural fire tanker from Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan.
West Otago Health will represent the Clutha district at the 2015 Trustpower National Community Awards, in Dunedin next March.
The search for two Owaka fishing friends missing since last Wednesday officially ended yesterday.
Rosebank School year 7 and 8 pupils (from left) Kyle Morado, Fyn Edwards, Jeremy Chaplin, Leo Koyama, and facilitator Jacob Martin experiment with light at the South Otago Museum in Balclutha yesterday.
Security cameras could be installed on Balclutha's main street before the end of the year.
A lifejacket found in Dunedin belongs to one of the two missing Owaka fishers, police say.
A ''not fully laden'' moving van which overturned on State Highway 1 just north of Balclutha yesterday was probably blown over, police say.
The sunny days of spring will bring large numbers of cyclists back to the Clutha Gold Trail, and the fine weather will allow contractors in to repair ''a major slip'' near Beaumont along the trail, Clutha Gold Trail chairman Rod Peirce says.
Stopping Tuatapere's only grocery store from going up in flames was ''the save of a lifetime'', the local fire chief says.
The search and rescue team is part of the lifeblood of Owaka, Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan says.
Tapanui's popular October beer festival is moving away from its original Bavarian theme this year.
A ''curious'' critically endangered New Zealand sea lion has been exploring the Esplanade at Kaka Point.