Alexandra volunteer fireman Phillip McKenzie was an inspiration and a role model for all generations, mourners said at his funeral service on Saturday.
Farmers say $4.9 million allocated to compensate land owners affected by the upgrade of the existing lower South Island transmission lines is insufficient.
A decision on Contact Energy's preferred option for hydro-electric development on the Clutha River is unlikely to be made until next year.
The Central Otago District Council yesterday rubber-stamped a 7% rates increase, with no discussion.
After four years of wrangling, appeal hearings in two different courts and several million dollars spent, the future of the Project Hayes wind-farm proposal on the Lammermoor Range may be debated again in a rehearing.
A rehearing of the Project Hayes case would impose a further financial burden on groups and individuals objecting to the wind farm, their counsel told the High Court yesterday.
Meridian Energy had ignored the fact the Environment Court decision on Project Hayes was about the protection of a nationally important landscape from an inappropriate development, the appeal hearing was told yesterday.
The "massive attack" on poplar trees near the old Alexandra bridge piers had further downgraded the southern entrance into the town, the Clutha management committee was told last week.
The next round in the battle to decide whether the southern hemisphere's largest wind farm should be constructed on the Lammermoor Range in Dunedin starts on Monday.
Gold recovery will become a 24-hour operation at L&M Mining's Earnscleugh mine later this month.
Submitters at a planning hearing described as a "test case" for the demolition of heritage buildings protected by the Central Otago District Plan pleaded yesterday for the remains of an Alexandra building to be left intact.
Warning signs may be placed along key access sites to the Clutha River, following a coroner's recommendation after a Dunedin youth drowned in the river at Roxburgh.
It came as no surprise to his wife and fellow St John volunteers, but now it's official - Alan Buxton is Cromwell's "Top Guy".
A Cromwell teenager will face six charges in the Dunedin District Court today after allegedly pointing a nailgun at a policeman early on Saturday in Cromwell, then driving off and reaching speeds of up to 150kmh before crashing the vehicle he was driving south of Alexandra.
Plans for a multimillion-dollar motorsport park at Cromwell are still up to speed, resource consent having been finalised recently.
Central Otago ratepayers who get in early can avoid the coming rise in GST.
A new information centre at Cromwell has been deferred for a year and the Central Otago District Council plans to explore options for other businesses or agencies to become partners in the facility.
Matakanui Station owner Andrew Paterson gets little in return for the $10,300 he pays in Central Otago District Council rates, he told the council yesterday.
Two "ill-prepared" hunters stranded in snow near Oteake Conservation Park would have died if neighbouring farmers had not been checking stock in the blizzard, one of the men's rescuers said yesterday.
Cromwell Primary School principal Wendy Brooks is convinced that using restorative practices to manage behaviour in schools teaches children to take responsibility for their actions.
