Shannon Gillies

What protection and comfort is offered by nature as it jars against dairy expansion in the township of Ngapara is explored in an exhibition at Oamaru's Forrester Gallery.

Oamaru's restorative justice programme has won praise from a visiting judge, the reports the unit created having aided him in how he sentenced offenders, Judge Allan Roberts said.

Children from low-income Waitaki families are to be given the opportunity to learn to swim, thanks to Plunket and a Waitaki District Council subsidy.

The only New Zealander selected to produce artwork for the closing ceremony of the 800-year jubilee of the Dominican Order at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome in November had not painted a picture until she was 57.

The team behind North Otago race driver Steve Robertson hopes to get their man to the North Island's Valvoline Speedweek.

Police are investigating why a loaded truck rolled on to its side, closing one lane of State Highway 1 near Shag Point, north of Palmerston, for most of yesterday.

Sounds of laughter and ukulele music filled the air at Oamaru's Grainstore Gallery as members of the Oamaru Intergalactic Ukulele Ensemble gathered for their weekly practice on Monday night.

Police officers of the Waitaki are celebrating 75 years of women in the police force.

After 22 years of working in and leading rural policing in Waimate, area supervisor Sergeant Mike van der Heyden has left to take up a post in Temuka.

An Oamaru woman who said she watched her husband die of an asbestos-related illness is supporting another widow who is battling to get recognition of the pain she and her husband went through as he slowly died from oesophageal cancer.

Waimate is making strong strides towards completing its multifunction event centre on time, declaring stage one of its massive infrastructure project complete on Saturday.

St John is in need of volunteers if its ambulance is to stay on the road, its station manager says.

Police say there is a possibility of someone getting killed as poaching increases in the Waitaki Valley and Central Otago.