Stmubling across a first-edition copy of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road in ''pristine'' condition, tucked away in a bookshop in Austin, Texas, Bill Nye's heart started beating fast.
Even landowners in traditionally ''wet'' areas of Otago will need to be ''more active and aggressive'' in fighting rabbits as the dry conditions mean their numbers are increasing throughout the region.
Waitaki Community Gardens co-ordinator Sophia Leon de la Barra (left) and volunteer Saskia Dodebier pull a pizza from the oven on Pizza Friday last week.
Oamaru police are trying to locate the driver of a Mitsubishi Legnum, who demolished a set of traffic lights
Plans are progressing well for a memorial to remember the lives of hundreds of people whose graves were destroyed at the Oamaru Old Cemetery in the 1950s.
Pupils from five Waitaki primary schools are being encouraged to get moving next week.
As a special Anzac Day service beside the rusting hulk of a Fraser Island shipwreck draws nearer, excitement at one North Otago school is building.
Huge local support has been thrown behind a plan to revive Oamaru's old BMX track in Mill Rd.
A 37-year-old Oamaru man was airlifted to Christchurch Hospital with a serious back injury on Tuesday night, after his car crashed into a bank on Parsons Rd.
A stand-alone economic development body has been formed in North Otago.
Riding from the country's highest peak to the ocean by bike, the 301km Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail offers an unforgettable experience, writes Rebecca Ryan.
The Gemmells Crossing Bridge will be closed for two days next month for repairs.
Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher holds two designs for a proposed mural on the Countdown supermarket wall in Oamaru.
The sun came out just in time, the beer and wine flowed and great music filled the air at the 2015 Oamaru Wine and Food Festival yesterday.
About 300 people were thoroughly entertained as competitors in the 10th annual Birdman competition crashed and splashed into Oamaru Harbour yesterday morning.
Growing up in Oamaru, Anna Keno and Bridget McNally took speech and drama lessons and idolised their teacher, Karen Austin.
Despite the gradient and winds, cyclists in Oamaru have been cruising up Tyne and Wansbeck Sts with ease this week.
Creating a stand-alone economic development body is being investigated as a way to improve North Otago's economy.
Safer Waitaki wants to know what more can be done to meet the needs of the district's young people.
A design for a new combined North Otago Museum, Forrester Gallery and Waitaki District Archive on the gallery site is closer to being ready for public viewing.
