More than 100 people showed up to a meeting in Oamaru last night to raise concerns about a large scale forest farm being developed in the area. Read...

Warning: Distressing content An Oamaru man who ran an international online child sexual abuse ring has been jailed for four years.John Ritchie Hellewell, 49, was locked up for 20 months for almost identical crimes at the end of... Read...

A plumber and a storage company owner have made an unlikely crime-fighting duo.Early Wednesday morning, Foleys employee Tom Palmer was at Oamaru Self Storage, helping fix a caravan on site with its owner, when they noticed its window... Read...

The wanted man was found lying in the fetal position in a caravan the pair were working on. Read...

By Ashley Smyth of the Oamaru Mail If putting a treehouse on the side of a cliff, in a forest, with swing bridges, was easy, more people would be doing it.This is what a friend said to Liz Hayes on one of the days when she was... Read...

A photograph of an Oamaru veteran still hangs in the Scottish performing arts centre where she entertained the troops during World War II. Read...

St Kevin`s College is mourning the loss of one of its best and brightest.Year 13 pupil Roko Watesoni Tawatatau Tuapati, 17, known as Watson, sustained critical injuries in a crash near Teschemakers at Easter, and his life support... Read...

Emotions ran high in an Oamaru courtroom today as a teenage drink-driver responsible for a crash which caused the deaths of her two friends was sentenced to 12 months` home detention.The deaths of her two friends has `weighed heavily`... Read...

Childhoods including backyard croquet have set two 17-year-old Oamaru youths on a path to the national championships. Read...

Elder abuse is a growing problem and the offending is often perpetrated by family members. One Oamaru woman breaks her silence on the extreme financial and psychological abuse she suffered from her granddaughter. Ruby Heyward reports.... Read...