Jono Edwards

Alexis O’Neill (4) showed  fashion is sometimes about attitude  not  clothing at the Cromwell trots at the  weekend.

While skidding around dirt tracks in a high-powered machine, Cromwell engineer Peter Dickson (28) found the best way to keep out of pile-ups was to stay in front.

The waters of Lake Roxburgh continue to flow below the Roxburgh Dam as the Clutha River, after generating electricity for 300,000 homes.

Vehicles spill out of a car park at Nugget Point in the Catlins this week. Marilyn Dunn, who lives near the popular attraction, said it was filling regularly throughout the Christmas period.

Cromwell's non-profit racetrack could pull its largest crowd this weekend with two rumbling days of race vehicles producing serious horsepower.

A Chinese orchard worker died yesterday after he was hit by a car on the highway between Alexandra and Clyde.

The mission of future-proofing and finding a purpose for a 120-year Alexandra cottage will soon be realised.

It was in his home town of Cromwell that wood-chopper Bradley Pako yesterday got ''back into the swing'' of the sport after a four-month break.

For ex-New Zealand cyclist Matt Vermunt, of Dunedin, road bikes and bucking horses are two very different beasts.

Sophie Griffin, of Earnscleugh, and Susan St Clair-Newman, of Omakau, grab as many novels as they can carry at the Alexandra Rotary Book Sale yesterday.

This is not 7-year-old Jack Muir's first rodeo. In fact, it is the up-and-coming Wyndham bull rider's second outing riding a calf on the big stage.

The green surrounding the young subdivision of Pisa Moorings, which lies about 10km north of Cromwell, contrasts with the deep blue lake.

If a handful of submissions and a couple of hundred survey results are to be believed, Central Otago locals want Easter trading policy amended.

Ethical considerations have been raised about the  $15million Alexandra-based space research centre.

Organisers of a Naseby New Year fireworks display that can claim roots in the 1880s say "bureaucracy" has led to its cancellation.

Cromwell will hold its first community Christmas lunch this weekend.