Glasses of wine are back on the menu at the Clyde Wine and Food Harvest Festival at Easter but a question mark hangs over bottled wine sales.
The final resting place of Chinese gold miners buried in the Ida Valley - Moa Creek cemetery - more than a century ago is now marked.
A public meeting yesterday to discuss high levels of the bacteria E. coli in the Taieri River at Waipiata was not about ''finger-pointing'' but rather about taking a collective approach to solve the problem, those at the meeting were told.
Resource consent is being sought for the next stage of development at the Highlands Motorsport Park in Cromwell - 12 two-storey apartments.
Organisers of the 13th Clyde Wine and Food Harvest Festival are keeping their fingers crossed the event can go ahead on Easter Sunday, after running into some hurdles under the new alcohol laws.
An Alexandra man faces a charge of supplying alcohol to a minor, after a recent party in the town at which two 15-year-olds became ''heavily intoxicated'', police say.
Mike Colligan has seen all sorts of sights during more than 30 years as a policeman, but this particular occasion left him with tears rolling down his face.
The construction of milking sheds and other intensive farm buildings, except for wintering barns, will not be permitted within a 12m buffer zone around national grid high voltage power pylons in Central Otago.
Instead of sticking to their knitting, Central Stories Museum and Gallery staff have gone on a woolly wander with their latest offering.
The Cromwell Primary School's grounds are about to receive a ''treemendous'' $10,000 makeover.
An adventurous trek by two fathers and their sons over the Nevis Rd, believed to be the highest road in the country, showed the joys of ''simple living'', says the trip instigator, John Herbison.
Rookie ultra mountain runner Brenda Stringer will be doing the hard yards at Northburn today, inspired by her friend Claire Scofield, who copes with the daily challenges of living with cystic fibrosis.
Fine weather forecast for the Northburn 100 ultra mountain run this weekend could be disappointing for competitors, as the event has a reputation for extreme weather to match its brutal terrain, organisers say.
After a budget-pruning exercise, Central Otago ratepayers are likely to face an average district rates rise of 3.4% in the coming financial year.
A few garments from the Eden Hore fashion collection will be on display in Alexandra from tomorrow - the first time any have been exhibited since the collection changed hands eight months ago.
Suicide prevention is a community issue and another awareness evening has been organised in Central Otago for May to build on the momentum gained during the last series of meetings, according to those highlighting the issue in the district.
Maxine Ingram's tears during a candlelight ceremony in Cromwell on Saturday night illustrated the toll on a family when one of their members is affected by cancer.
After campaigning for more than eight years on behalf of Shane Cribb, Alexandra couple Steve and Denise Potter feel their efforts have been vindicated.
Disciplinary proceedings cannot be started against police involved in the mishandling of an investigation into a 2005 car crash near Alexandra, despite the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) finding there were multiple failings by some senior staff.
Shane Cribb, whose wrongful conviction sparked an Independent Police Conduct Authority report, was happy to be back at court again recently- only this time he was plastering the building.
