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A 12m-tall memorial tree has gone missing from the main street of Duntroon in what the owners described as "the rural equivalent of a ram-raid"....

Network Waitaki has posted a profit of more than $4 million, labelling it as remarkable. The profit can be put down to a drier summer and not...

Several dangerous driving offences committed over a 10-month period have earned an Oamaru man eight months home detention and 30 month disqualification from driving.

Gale force winds sweeping up the South Island have already rendered hundreds of Canterbury homes without power, with gusts of up to 160kmh being predicted.

A proposal for a new electric vehicle charging station at the Oamaru Harbour has been declined. Network Waitaki’s chosen site at the eastern side of Scotts Brewing Co was voted down by the Waitaki District Council’s harbour area committee on Tuesday. Network Waitaki has received government funding to install new charging stations, which it is required to use by June 30, and wanted to install a second charging station in Oamaru to meet growing demand. Several of the harbour area committee’...

Network Waitaki chief executive Geoff Douch. PHOTO: REBECCA RYAN Over the past four years, use of Network Waitaki’s electric vehicle fast-charging stations has more than quadrupled. After offering free use of the stations since 2017, the trust-owned lines company started charging users of its four 50kW fast-chargers in the Waitaki district from April 1. Network Waitaki chief executive Geoff Douch said the company’s challenge was to meet the demand of increasingly high usage, expand its fast...