A public meeting in Ranfurly tonight will discuss the future of the Ranfurly Auto art deco building, which was damaged by fire earlier this year.
A new bridge over the Manuherikia River near Omakau to link a dairy farm sited on both sides of the river would allow more clean and efficient stock movement and improve water quality, the Central Otago District Council's hearing panel was told yesterday.
A fire in a holiday house between Alexandra and Clyde yesterday morning prompted a warning about the safety of open fireplaces in some older homes.
A free taste of three different ice sports attracted more than 1000 people to the Naseby Ice Festival on Saturday.
Smiles stayed on the faces of curlers yesterday as competition heated up for a silver cup believed to be one of the country's oldest sporting trophies.
The owner of two partly-demolished heritage buildings in the centre of Alexandra says a planning decision by the Central Otago District Council has effectively prevented him from developing the site.
Central Otago is likely to get "two bites of the cake" in cycle trail funding.
Graphic designer Rebecca Fraser has set the standard throughout her training and now has official recognition that she is the best in the country at her craft.
Lives were placed at risk by the recent vandalism and theft of road signs around Galloway.
Nature has played its part and the curling fraternity will reap the icy benefit - a national bonspiel has been called at the Idaburn Dam tomorrow and Thursday, the first in three years.
Dunstan High School was a pioneer in outdoor education and a new $2.3 million gymnasium facility would give its pupils a chance to shine at indoor sports as well, Minister of Education Anne Tolley said yesterday.
A reservoir on the Sugarloaf hill near Cromwell would mar an iconic landscape, says a neighbour who plans to appeal a decision granting consent for the structure.
Central Otago apple growers are "flabbergasted" Australia will allow Chinese apples into that country while New Zealand pipfruit is still banned.
Cromwell singer Craig Adams will perform on the Good Morning show today, as a semifinalist in the "Find a Star" television competition.
Signs warning against swimming in the Clutha River are likely to be installed before summer but the Clutha Management Committee remains dubious about their merits.
A battle between scientists was the likely outcome of reconsidering climate change issues in the Project Hayes wind farm case, Justice John Fogarty said in the Dunedin High Court yesterday.
The Environment Court decision on the Project Hayes wind farm had set a new test for any major project, one that was unprecedented, impractical and perverse, Meridian Energy counsel Hugh Rennie told the appeal hearing in the High Court at Dunedin yesterday.
The Environment Court went "a step too far" when it declined consents for the Project Hayes wind farm, the two councils whose consents were overturned say.
The value of the Lammermoor Range landscape dominated much of the discussion on the final day of the main appeal against the Environment Court's Project Hayes decision in the High Court at Dunedin yesterday.
The welcome mat is being extended to campers in Central Otago but freedom campers will be steered towards conservation land and reserves.