Sally Rae

Education Minister Anne Tolley is satisfied Otepopo School should close.

Oamaru's very own calendar girl, Janice McPherson, laughingly says that she needs to "get a life".

Environment Minister Nick Smith has until next Friday to decide whether to call in resource consent applications of two companies with controversial plans to establish new dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau area.

The Government is considering intervening in the controversial dairy-farm proposals for the Omarama-Ohau area. but it looks unlikely the resource consent applications will be "called in".

The weather might be wild and the lake choppy - but there's always Coronation Street.

Volunteers at Totara Estate south of Oamaru are helping bring the historic site alive each morning this summer.

It has been dubbed a walking tour with a difference.

The calling-in of resource consent applications "makes sense" because the issue of proposed large-scale dairy farm development in the Omarama and Ohau area was too big for Environment Canterbury to handle properly, Labour's water quality spokesman Brendon Burns said yesterday.

The redevelopment of Waitaki Valley School is on track for the start of the new school year.

When Oamaru accountant Tony Brady walks out of his office for the final time, he admits it will be a strange feeling.

Winifred Gaze, who celebrated her 75th wedding anniversary in July last year, has died in Oamaru.

Watch out for the Waitaki Wasps.

When land baron Robert Campbell married in 1868, he decided the attractive two-storey homestead on Otekaieke Station was not big enough to live in.

French tarts are a big seller at Ian and Pam Currall's stall at the Kurow farmers market.

Vaughan Tessier-Varlet admits he is a workaholic.

Armed with a stick bearing the heads of 15 decapitated Barbie dolls, Honey Wilson was ready to do battle at the Oamaru Public Gardens on Thursday.

One of Oamaru's most prominent buildings is being restored to its former glory.