Jono Edwards

The Cromwell Community Board has made outdoor areas of the Cromwell Mall smokefree, against the recommendation of council staff.

Models (left) Tessa Treadwell-Burke, of Wanaka, and Claire Scofield, of Alexandra, get made up ahead of the WoolOn dress rehearsal yesterday  by Alexandra hair stylists Cathy Pankhurst (left)...

A request by organisers of a new Central Otago wedding fair for seed funding has raised the question whether community boards should finance commercial enterprises.

The Vincent Community Board has supported a ''no-brainer'' move to extend the main area of Alexandra's indoor stadium.

Funding of the Maniototo health facility rebuild was discussed, and land sales deferred, at a meeting in Ranfurly yesterday.

An Alexandra group is pushing ahead with a plan to bring a community heating scheme to the area to clear the air of log-burner smoke.

The Clyde underpass is being transformed into a vivid Central Otago landscape, thanks to an Alexandra painter.

LED street lights will mean clearer nights for Central Otago, but some Naseby residents seeking to establish the village as a dark-sky destination want the council to go even further.

Many areas of Otago experienced the coldest temperatures of the year as ``severe frosts'' hit the region just before dawn yesterday.

The Central Otago District Council has issued $8000 in fines in less than two months from newly enforced parking restrictions, and the measures are here to stay.

Some irrigators feel their concerns are being ignored as the Otago Regional Council works to set minimum flow limits in the Manuherikia River.

Maniototo locals overwhelmingly support land sales as a way to help fund its health facility rebuild, annual plan submissions indicate.

The new industrial backdrop at Central Otago's woollen fashion event will help accentuate designers' skill, organisers say.

More than $70,000 was raised for Central Otago groups at the region's inaugural winter feed competition.

It could ''devastate'' Otago's environment if wallabies established themselves here, the Otago Regional Council says.

An ongoing use is still being sought for a historic Alexandra cottage to keep its memories alive.

Otago Central Rail Trail Charitable Trust facilitator Clare Toia-Bailey takes a break from riding at the Muttontown Bridge near Clyde.

The units are almost all sold at Cromwell’s new retirement village as occupants gradually move in.

A second supermarket for Cromwell shows the confidence businesses have in the town, its community board chairman says.