Shannon Gillies

Methamphetamine is not welcome in Kurow and work is under way to stop its spread, the town's sole police officer says.

Meridian Energy had to lower the level of the Waitaki River so police could reach and retrieve the body of Waimate man Marshall Robert Smith on Sunday.

Hundreds of litres of milk was poured on a storage shed fire, slowing its spread towards a home in Hilderthorpe near State Highway 1, north of Oamaru, yesterday.

The Kurow community has lost a second sportsman in tragic circumstances within 17 months.

More than a year after the Government announced a new ''pathway'' to residence for some long-term migrants on temporary working visas, about 20 people in North Otago are still waiting to hear...

Two  horses went for a wild ride yesterday when the horse float they were in became detached from the towing vehicle and crashed on to its side on State Highway 1 north of Palmerston.

The education season is set to bloom at the Waitaki Community Gardens.

Whanau have descended on Te Kura o Te Tira Morehu Reo o Moeraki marae this week, for an educational gathering which has attracted more than 50 people, from as far away as Napier, Palmerston...

The committee raising money to build a Richie McCaw statue in Kurow hopes the project will gather pace in the coming months.

Rumours  that Waitaki's MP or mayor will step down from their roles to pursue greater political agendas or lives free of politics have been quashed.

At least two feasibility studies are to be conducted for St John's proposed new ambulance station in Oamaru.

On consecutive nights in Oamaru, allegedly drunk middle-aged female drivers crashed into a traffic light and a lamppost, police say.

Yellow-eyed penguins are a well known image associated with New Zealand, but the species’ future is fragile, under threat from all manner of predators. Intrepid North Otago reporter Shannon Gillies...

A lack of hard data on North Otago’s Pasifika population has spurred the Waitaki District Council and  Oamaru Pacific Charitable Trust into action.

A pursuit near Twizel was called off when  speeds of about 150kmh were reached, but the driver was outsmarted by quick communication between three police patrols.

Charlene Napier, office manager for Waitaki electorate MP Jacqui Dean, peers through the damaged main window of the MP's electorate office in Oamaru's main street.

Progress has been made in the Omarama Volunteer Fire Brigade and St John spat over deployment to emergency callouts.

A change to how disputes are resolved at retirement homes will  benefit  Otago’s elders, says an Oamaru accredited mediator.