An investigation of an alleged incident involving a police officer at the Cromwell police station has come to light, only a day after a former Central Otago policeman admitted using his police-issued iPhone to record a teenage girl having a shower.
A brief but heavy hailstorm pelted Cromwell and some surrounding areas yesterday afternoon.
Members of the Alexandra Volunteer Fire Brigade line up outside their station after moving back in following six months of extensions and upgrades.
The economic impact the Highlands 101 motor-racing event had on Cromwell and the wider district is being studied by the Central Otago District Council.
Having to return to a fire yesterday at the same location as one the day before reinforced the severity of the fire risk, the Clyde fire chief says.
Time stood still in Alexandra yesterday morning, according to the clock-on-the-hill.
Accommodation providers in the Cromwell area have reported a boom in business during the recent Highlands 101 motorsport racing weekend.
More than 200 people attended a preschool kapa haka festival at Pioneer Park, in Alexandra, yesterday, starring more than 100 children from six preschools.
The Clyde Volunteer Fire Brigade had a busier day than usual yesterday, attending a motor vehicle accident, two fires, and topped it off with training in the evening.
Pit crew members like to keep out of the way of the limelight.
Whether you pronounce it oo-kulele or you-kulele, or just call it a uke, the Lauder Ukulele Festival organisers do not mind.
As a siren sounded, the pipe band struck up a tune and began marching.
Exhausted athletes clambering around the Nevis Valley in early December will have no-one to blame but themselves, Rod, Gail and Neil.
As sunshine fell on the Highlands Motorsport Park race track yesterday, so did the lap record.
White with green and black trim and, just like money burning a hole in your back pocket, it goes fast, too.
Alexandra businesses may be losing customers due to all-day car-parkers in prime retail areas.
About 400,000 salmon smolt have been released in the Clutha River in an effort to increase the number of salmon returning to the river to spawn, including 150,000 this year.
Yesterday's Otago Regional Council meeting may have only lasted for about 40 minutes, but travelling to Alexandra to hold it was not a waste of time, senior staff said.
Construction of a building that will house the Cromwell i-Site, which was the subject of controversy over its proposed location and ownership, is under way.
After 14 years, the Art Deco Festival in Ranfurly is to make way for a new summer event.
