Lynda van Kempen

The Central Otago District Council is heeding the call by Alexandra residents to "fix the water", but notes solutions for the town's water woes are complex and costly.

A former Alexandra woman who arrived in New Zealand aged 6 unable to speak a word of English, has just graduated from the prestigious University of Melbourne School of Medicine.

Dunedin and parts of Central Otago have experienced one of their driest Novembers in 90 years, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) national climate summary for November says.

Contact Energy has been given permission to raise the level of Lake Roxburgh by 60cm, providing enough power for an additional 1400 homes a year.

Dunedin man Don Saxton watched his new home-to-be going up in flames yesterday just an hour or so after he paid $16,500 for the house bus.

Southern landscape architects are "staggered " by claims the Department of Conservation is not an expert on landscapes.

Rod Dixon would not class himself as a runner like his famous namesake, but he has notched up a kind of marathon.

Contact Energy called off plans to flush sediment from Lake Roxburgh on Thursday, after expected high flows in the Clutha River failed to eventuate.

St Kevins College principal Brent Russell has been appointed principal of Dunstan High School in Alexandra.

Four-year-old Kohen Dick will go back to Central Stories in 50 years "on my motorbike", to unearth the time capsule he helped put together to mark the Alexandra museum's 50th anniversary.

A resounding cheer from the pupils has gone up every time a wall of the Alexandra Primary School has tumbled to the ground this week.

Alexandra's museum celebrated a historical milestone of its own at the weekend.

St Bathans Blue Lake owes its origins to a man known as the Gold Baron.