Lucy Ibbotson

Keeping busy is the secret to a healthy life and happy marriage, Wanaka couple Bill and Marjorie Durry say.

A portable pool costing a fraction of the price of a permanent one is being considered as an interim solution for a learn-to-swim facility in Wanaka, and could be operating within the next few months.

The ''jewel'' of Wanaka - Pembroke Park - should remain ''sacrosanct'' for future generations of residents, one of the objectors to proposed car parking on the reserve says.

A long-running dispute over encroachment of a public walking track on to private land is almost resolved.

From reading and reviewing books to rescuing hundreds of homeless children, a group of Wanaka women has achieved a great deal more than they set out to when they formed a book club 12 years ago.

The Wanaka-based Arusha Orphans' Charitable Trust was founded by

A contentious proposal to convert part of Pembroke Park in Wanaka into car parking will come before the Wanaka Community Board again next week.

By the time thousands of Challenge Wanaka competitors begin their exercise in extreme endurance this morning, Wanaka GP Andrew McLeod (53, pictured above) will have already swum the equivalent of 152 lengths of Moana Pool and biked the equivalent distance in kilometres from Dunedin to Christchurch.

A Tarras farming family is angry an electric fence used to contain cattle has been anonymously dismantled almost daily for the past couple of weeks.

A misunderstanding nearly led to a full-scale search and rescue operation being launched yesterday after two 61-year-old Hamilton men were reported overdue from a tramping trip on the Motatapu Track.

Boil-water notices were lifted from Glendhu Bay and Arrowtown yesterday.