Mark Price

Today ''the Neck'' is known to most as not much more than a couple of steep bends on State Highway 6 between Wanaka and the West Coast. But this isthmus between Lakes Hawea and Wanaka has always been a sacred place to southern Maori and, as Mark Price reports, it is scheduled to be accorded again the prominence it once had.

A Lincoln-based Landcare Research scientist is urging those who carry out rabbit poisoning programmes to consider also getting rid of the feral cats that feed on them.

Sparks from a fire in a conservation area next to Albert Town may have been what set fire to a house in a street about 150m away.

Almost five weeks without rain has put the squeeze on Wanaka Golf Club course superintendent Jason LaRose (left) to produce conditions to suit the 200 competitors in the three-day Hirequip Charity Golf Tournament, which begins today.

A pest-control programme on one small area of land near Lake Wanaka has eradicated almost 700 pests - including a cat likened to a panther - in little more than a year.

The perfect gift for the student with everything hit the display stand at the Wanaka A&P Show with a $39,000 thud yesterday.

Cardrona's controversial ''bra fence'' is on the way back.

''Big data'' is providing the tourism industry with detailed information about visitors and their spending habits.

The row over whether the Westland District Council can charge for the use of what it describes as ''a boat ramp'' at Jackson Bay could be headed for court.

Not many people would have realised it, but yesterday was a fine day for getting your goats dry.