Entries up in Bridge to Beach event
Entries up in Bridge to Beach event
The oldest participant at the Johnstone Electrical Bridge to Beach finds walking gets him talking.
Hamish MacLean
Word from the top - 'firm but fair'
Word from the top - 'firm but fair'
Balclutha's new top policeman Sergeant Martin Bull has a simple policing philosophy: ''firm but fair''.
Subsidy wanted for water-quality plan
Subsidy wanted for water-quality plan
Targeted rates are all about give and take for Clutha District Water Catchments Quality Management Project manager Hamish Anderson.
Sheets brought comfort from home
Sheets brought comfort from home
A bedcloth with hand-stitched messages of support for Anzac troops in World War 1, made in Stirling, South Otago, was discovered in a small English town and will be a part of World War 1 centenary commemorations in England.
Following his dreams ...
Following his dreams ...
''Riding Miss Ferguson'' is a one-man mission to raise money for the elderly of Mercury Bay.
Hopes rising as dam fills
Hopes rising as dam fills
Water restrictions remain in place for 300 Clutha properties from Lovells Flat to Waihola, but the Clutha District Council says it is making progress on fixing the scheme.
Cavalcader airlifted with leg injury
Cavalcader airlifted with leg injury
A woman who had been kicked by a horse was airlifted to Dunedin Hospital by helicopter during the first day on the Tussock Creek light wagon trail on the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust's cavalcade yesterday.
'Good save' of house
'Good save' of house
Thick, toxic smoke filled Abercrombie St in Milton as a house burned yesterday morning.
Scheme leak threatens water supply
Scheme leak threatens water supply
The Clutha District Council was last night scrambling to find a suspected major leak in one of the district's rural water schemes.
Learning to live with the pain
Learning to live with the pain
Sue Parker has learned to live with a broken heart she knows will never heal.
Council envisages lower rate rises
Council envisages lower rate rises
The Clutha District Council is preparing to bring to ratepayers a draft 10-year plan that would mean a reduction in rates hikes from previous years.
New bike trail plan launched
New bike trail plan launched
Plans for a cycleway from Lawrence to Waihola are up and moving, but the wheels are turning in a low gear.
$15,397 unpaid rates write-off
$15,397 unpaid rates write-off
More than $15,000 of rates arrears is expected to be written off as unrecoverable by the Clutha District Council at its corporate services committee meeting today.
Feelings run high over marine reserve proposal
Feelings run high over marine reserve proposal
Tensions were on display at the weekend as the possibility of a marine reserve being created off Nugget Point again reared its head.
Shined and ready for road trip
Shined and ready for road trip
Next week, Bill Bazley will head out on the highway in his 1957 Ford Custom 300, driving about 1500km to the Whangamata 2015 Beach Hop, on the southeast coast of Coromandel, for the five-day rock `n' roll car festival, beginning on March 25.
Skate park setback
Skate park setback
Designs and a quote for a small skate park in Kaitangata that were ''way over budget'' have sent the one-year-old group trying to establish the park ''back to the drawing board''.
AgBoard loses its paid staff
AgBoard loses its paid staff
The Clutha Agricultural Development Board (AgBoard) began operating without paid staff for the first time since 1999 this month.
Tourist driver safety moves initiated
Tourist driver safety moves initiated
Two new South Otago initiatives aim to help visiting international drivers negotiate New Zealand roads safely - and neither involves key-snatching.
New tower to bring cellphone coverage
New tower to bring cellphone coverage
A cellphone tower under construction at Papatowai should bring coverage to the area late this month or early next month, a Vodafone spokeswoman says.
Serious fun on roads, bush tracks and beach
Serious fun on roads, bush tracks and beach
When Anthony Eyles reached the beach in the 19th Papatowai Challenge on Saturday he followed the tracks his wife and son had made earlier in the sand.