Steve Hepburn

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Steve Hepburn

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. SouthlandThe EnsignHe has spent half his life in the front row with the Heriot club. Now, Blair Young is on the sideline watching and helping the same club. Young, 42, played an eye-watering 300 club games for Heriot until he stopped in 2023. Young, a prop, said it was not a mark he had particularly eyed up but once it came within view and he decided he would play long enough to get to the tally.

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Steve Hepburn

Environment Southland says rivers in the region are being put under increasing pressure due to more frequent and severe weather and past approaches do not cut the mustard. It is looking at new ways to fund the maintenance of the region’s rivers and who should pay for it. The old model of those living closest to the rivers paying the most maintenance appears headed for the rubbish bin with new funding regimes to be introduced.

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Steve Hepburn

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsCentral OtagoWhat was described as a 16-lot farm park was also called "medium density housing" in a remote location, a hearing was told this week. Clutha Plains Trust was seeking resource consent from the Central Otago District Council for a "farm park" style subdivision, comprising 16 residential sized lots and one productive lot at Māori Point Rd in Tarras.

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Steve Hepburn

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsSouth OtagoJoel Parry is dreaming big. Well, big for Heriot anyway. The West Otago painter has 3ha of land in Heriot which he wants to give away. But there is a catch. He will not give it to just anyone. He wants it to go to someone who will come up with an idea of enterprise and energy which will be good for the town — give Heriot, population about 100, a shot in the arm.

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Steve Hepburn

Thursday, 10 April 2025 You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsCentral OtagoThe Ophir community is not going down without a fight over the future of its hall. The hall is one of many facilities the Central Otago District Council is looking to sell through its long-term plan.