Cromwell's community board has approved a $125,000 grant to the Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust (OGHT), to help the trust buy the Goldfields Mining Centre in the Kawarau Gorge.
Cromwell needs new public toilet facilities, residents disgusted with the state of the Lode Lane amenity block say, while others complain about finding excrement in recreation areas.
Visitors to the Cromwell Top 10 Holiday Park camping ground during December and January generated an estimated $1 million for the local economy, a survey has found.
Members of the Cromwell and Alexandra volunteer fire brigades are training hard this week so they are ready for the 2009 Firefighter Sky Tower Challenge on Saturday.
Cromwell Golf Club members should know in August whether the club can proceed with a planned redevelopment of its course, following anticipated land sales in Cromwell's commercial and industrial sectors.
The Otago Central Rail Trail continues to grow in popularity despite the recession.
A close watch was being kept on the level of the Clutha River last night.
Poolburn farmer Graham Sinnamon enjoys lunch with Poolburn School pupils
The Otago Goldfields Heritage Trust will present a business plan for its proposed operation of a Kawarau Gorge gold-mining tourist attraction, at a closed meeting of the Cromwell Community Board next week.
Cromwell College's local-business sponsorship drive is proving worthwhile, netting more than $150,000 in its first month.
Central Otago orchardist is being prosecuted by the Otago Regional Council after allegedly burning tyres to fight frost on a property last year.
A dispute between Otago Central Rail Trail business operators and the Department of Conservation over signs on the trail has been resolved.
Central Otago WasteBusters manager Karen Noble, of Alexandra, is the first New Zealander to receive a national certificate in Zero Waste and Resource Recovery (Principles for Implementation Level 3).
A lack of public transport in the Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes districts is concerning residents, some of whom made verbal submissions to an Otago Regional Council hearings panel in Alexandra yesterday.
Queenstown property developer Basil Walker is preparing documents to the High Court at Dunedin which claim the Otago Regional Council has breached a court undertaking.
A small-scale hydro-electricity generator in the Teviot Valley is supportive of Contact Energy's plans to dam parts of the Clutha River, despite the fact damming would flood its power station.
Otago's Fish and Game Council is pushing for grey teal to be reclassified as a game bird.
Preliminary plans have been finalised for a purpose-built medical facility in Alexandra, set to amalgamate the town's three general health practices.
A conditional contract for the sale of Central Otago's largest single dairy farm is still being negotiated.
It is unlikely an asphalt manufacturing plant will be set up near Lowburn soon, as developers review its viability in the current economic climate.
