Mark Price

Reverberations from Bruce Hutton's planting of a cartridge case to convict Arthur Allan Thomas spread to another of New Zealand's highest-profile crimes, writes Otago Daily Times senior Wanaka reporter Mark Price.

Recently-appointed Westland District Property director Graeme Purches is not committing publicly to a view on the Haast-Hollyford highway proposal.

Skiers and snowboarders will need to wait another 10 days to find out what the Snow Park in the Cardrona Valley is offering for this ski season.

Wanaka's new jetsprint aqua course got the thumbs up from Caveman on Saturday, so it must be pretty good.

The Upper Clutha district's ''photo album'' is slowly coming together. Wanaka reporter Mark Price meets the dedicated couple sifting through thousands of images.

The Easter tradition of Wanaka shops opening in contravention of the Shop Trading Hours Repeal Act 1990 appeared to be flourishing yesterday - Good Friday.

''Blue is the new orange.''

Wearing a helmet may have saved the life of a climber who fell 140m on a rocky peak near Mt Awful, yesterday, in Mt Aspiring National Park.

A group of Wanaka residents who live on Little Mt Iron hope to convince the Queenstown Lakes District Council at a meeting today to install fire sirens in their neighbourhood.

Invercargill member of Parliament Eric Roy is confident those proposing to build a 127km toll road between Haast and the Hollyford Valley in South Westland have the resources to make it happen.