One local body candidate has labelled another ''puerile and childish'' for drawing a cigarette in his mouth on a campaign poster displayed in a shop window, but the artist says it was done openly and in good humour.
Central Otago's newest police officers are looking forward to a change of lifestyle and a completely different policing environment from their last job, in South Auckland.
Clyde School was set up at the height of the Otago gold rush and its golden origins will be celebrated next month, along with its successes over the past 150 years.
A Goldfields School team pulled out all the stops with a golden performance, only four points short of a perfect score, to become Extra! Central Otago current events quiz champions last night.
Coastguard national award winner Tony Smith is not one for blowing his own trumpet.
After a famine last election, Central Otago voters have a feast this time around.
A man who asked his mate to hit him over the head with a beer bottle to see if it hurt was ''one of the more bizarre incidents we've attended recently'', Alexandra police said yesterday.
The Central Otago District Council is looking into the possibility of being involved in developing rest-homes in the district, an election forum in Cromwell heard last night.
The first Alexandra Blossom Festival event is less than a week away and judging began yesterday for the seven contenders in the Senior Festival Queen contest.
A wee dram or two of whisky, a gathering of the clans, a quick canter in kilts and tartan galore - the Teviot Valley's celebration of all things Scottish ticked all the boxes.
A Central Otago memory bank should prove a major heritage resource, its developers say.
Plans for the third Central Otago Relay for Life are shaping up well, with the vital ingredient - the teams - soon to be added to the mix.
The Otago Daily Times is profiling mayoral candidates in Otago's heartland. Today, Lynda van Kempen talks to Lynley Claridge, standing in Central Otago.
Peer support services may be set up after an ''absolutely amazing'' response to a series of suicide prevention meetings held over the past week.
An Alexandra facility billed as ''the coolest place in Central Otago'' could be used to heat the town's swimming pool, saving ratepayers about $44,000 in power costs in the first year.
The strange lights moving in Cromwell skies at the weekend might have had a terrestrial source rather than an alien one.
The first woman appointed as Maniototo Area School principal was a pupil there when it made history by becoming the country's first area school.
Stargazer Ross Hansen is baffled by an ''odd light'' he saw moving high in the skies over Cromwell on Sunday night.
Two Teviot Valley licensed premises sold alcohol to a 17-year-old during a controlled-purchase operation on Friday night, one after checking the teenager's identification, which was doubly disappointing, Alexandra police said.
Pleas for Central Otago communities to work together to reduce the suicide rate and to talk openly about the issue were made at a public meeting in Cromwell last night.
