Police want to hear from those with information about an aggravated robbery in Oamaru.The robbery took place just after 5.30pm on Friday January 14 at the Unichem Northend Pharmacy.A man entered the premises, threatened staff... Read...

A train and a car have collided in Oamaru`s Thames St this afternoon and a person has been hospitalised with serious injuries. Read...

Residents north of Oamaru will soon have their water restored after a treatment plant fire earlier in the week. Read...

It was described in an episode of US TV news show 60 Minutes as `the worst disease you have never heard of`, and frontotemporal dementia is now a disease the Banks family, of Alexandra, can only wish they had indeed never heard of.... Read...

Oamaru teenager Alvira Repia-King is on the mend after being attacked by a shark at Friendly Bay on Sunday afternoon. Read...

Oamaru teenager Alvira Repia-King is on the mend after being attacked by a shark at Friendly Bay on Sunday afternoon.The 13-year-old received 52 stitches — 42 in her right arm, and 10 in her back — after she was bitten several times... Read...

An Oamaru teenager was taken to hospital after being attacked by a shark in Oamaru Harbour this afternoon. Read...

An Oamaru teenager was taken to hospital after being attacked by a shark in Oamaru Harbour this afternoon.Sergeant Tony Woodbridge, of Oamaru, said a group of about five young people had been jumping off Holmes Wharf and paddling... Read...

Fire and Emergency New Zealand crews are battling a house fire near Maheno this morning.A FENZ spokeswoman said crews from Oamaru, Kakanui, and Weston were called to the house in Maheno-Kakanui Rd, south of Oamaru, at 10am.The... Read...

Violated, devastated and heartbroken.That is how Balclutha mother Amber Field feels after her car, packed full of her family`s personal belongings from their Twizel holiday, was stolen from the McDonald`s Oamaru car park on Sunday.... Read...