Sergeant Tony Woodbridge is happy to be home.Last month, the Oamaru police officer put his hand up to go to Wellington to join his colleagues at the cordon around the anti-mandate protest on Parliament`s lawn.With previous experience... Read...

Police have charged a 57-year-old Oamaru man with wilful damage, after Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean`s Oamaru office was vandalised yesterday morning.Acting Sergeant Neil Rushton, of Oamaru, said police received several reports of a person... Read...

Multiple investigations have been launched after footage of an equestrian event rider repeatedly kicking and hitting a horse in Oamaru on Friday was posted online.The video shared on social media shows a woman beating a horse for... Read...

Warning: Video may be disturbing for some viewers, we advise discretion. A video has surfaced showing an equestrian event rider lashing out at a horse, including kicking and hitting it, as it backs up during an extended beating... Read...

A reunion 31 years in the making has brought Norm McLeod full circle.In November 1990, McLeod was a negotiator in a hostage incident in Oamaru`s Wye St, talking a man into putting down the knife he had used to stab his wife and... Read...

Police are investigating an alleged hit-and-run and multiple stolen vehicles in Dunedin as a driver continues to evade police around Otago.A police spokeswoman said a vehicle of interest, reported as stolen, was located in Oamaru... Read...

Conservationists have found a protected tarapunga/red-billed gull that was shot with a crossbow bolt in Oamaru. Read...

A man has died in a glider crash near Omarama this afternoon.Sergeant Tony Woodbridge, of Oamaru, said a rescue helicopter crew from Dunedin found the crashed glider and had informed police the pilot did not survive the crash.Other... Read...

Installing shark warning signs at Oamaru Harbour `might be an overreaction`, Waitaki District Council chief executive Alex Parmley says.Police approached the council about putting up signs in the harbour area after Alvira Repia-King,... Read...

Police have arrested a man over the aggravated robbery and burglary of a pharmacy in Oamaru two days ago. Read...