Sports funding has been cut to at least six of Otago's 23 secondary schools by more than $10,000 under the Government's Kiwisport initiative, announced this week, reveals.
Cromwell company Bamford Contracting has been put into receivership and a Balclutha pre-cast concrete plant is laying off seven workers.
Otago residents should make their views on power prices heard in an effort to reduce skyrocketing electricity bills, Central Otago Mayor Malcolm Macpherson says.
Central Otago's social service groups are entering the debate about high electricity costs, as they record increasing numbers of clients seeking help.
Concerns are being voiced in Central Otago about whether residents should be encouraged to replace wood fires with cleaner burning electric heating appliances, as some people struggle to pay power bills.
Cromwell police have recovered allegedly stolen property from a address at which they were pelted with bottles and rocks on Saturday.
Cromwell police say they are going to take a hard line on disorder-related offending after officers were pelted with bottles and rocks on Saturday morning during a party at which seven young men were arrested.
Rod and Paddy-Ann Pemberton are living examples of what some people are calling bureaucracy gone wrong in Central Otago.
Alexandra and Clyde's liquor ban has been extended to include Christmas and New Year's eves.
The Central Otago District Council has spent $83,000 on a new rural-fire water tanker after one was destroyed in an accident earlier this year.
On January 24, CODC Rural Fire Authority Officer Kenneth McGarry was trapped in the driver's seat of an 8000-litre water tanker for almost two hours, after the vehicle rolled down an embankment on private property near Alexandra.
Alexandra's Molyneux Aquatic Centre is still closed, after the wrong-sized parts were received for the pool's heating system.
Plans to develop a new information centre at Cromwell have been delayed by six weeks - due to requests for more information.
Central Otago's economy is going from strength to strength despite a recession, Mayor Malcolm Macpherson says.
Clyde Primary School will next year be open to enrolments from children outside its zone, for the first time since the zone was introduced.
Due to a large roll growth in Clyde and Alexandra in recent years, the school's zone was imposed at the start of 2008, after being approved by the Ministry of Education in 2007.
The Cromwell community now has two intravenous drug pumps to use, bought with money from a charity golf tournament fundraiser.
The developer of the empty Quail Haven subdivision at Roxburgh says it is not a "dead duck" despite setbacks in the granting of titles.
Ingrid Temple
Central Otago visitor information centre staff are confident about the future of tourism in the district, despite a marked drop in the number of people visiting centres in the past year.
More people are accessing Central Otago through Cromwell than ever before, according to tourism leaders who say it is the district's new gateway.
A $4.5 million loss in investment value will not stop the Central Lakes Trust from continuing to approve charitable community grants.
Repairs to Central Otago roads damaged by a flood in May cost more than $40,000.
