"It is just ridiculous..."said the mother of one of two young people killed near Wanaka last November, after the driver of the car involved was yesterday sentenced to 12 months' home detention.
Gina Ferguson, of Christchurch, and Merryn Greenwood, of Wanaka, gave New Zealand's best performances in wet and cold conditions at the Quelle Challenge iron distance triathlon in Germany yesterday, finishing third and 15th respectively in the elite women's category.
New Zealand triathletes Keiran Doe and Gina Ferguson got off to a quick start at the Challenge Roth long-distance triathlon in Germany last night, with both high on the leaderboard.
Dingleburn Station owners Guy and Davida Mead have failed to get resource consent for a four-lot subdivision, to be held in two certificates of title.
Wanaka triathlete Merryn Greenwood feels she is in tip-top shape as she goes into the biggest race of her life tomorrow in the Quelle Challenge Roth long-distance triathlon in Germany.
Ronaldo and Rooney first equal, the All Blacks next: that's how 6-year-old football striker Tyler-Joe (TJ) Lilly, of Lake Hawea, rates his heroes.
Claire Davis (18), of Wanaka, returned to her former stamping ground of Mt Aspiring College on Tuesday to receive a $5000 scholarship from Aurora Energy, for academic excellence in 2007.
Two Wanaka women are calling for a national investigation of rest-home care and changes to ACC laws following the death of their 90-year-old grandmother in Dunedin.
Presbyterian Support Otago chief executive Gillian Bremner has defended caregivers at the centre of a complaint about the standard of care given to Mary May (90).
The Government must bite the bullet and tell the nation to make a 10% savings on power or endure public shame if it is not achieved, the Lake Hawea Community Association chairman Errol Carr says.
Wanaka's skiers and snowboarders defied this weekend's changeable weather and headed for the hills in large numbers to celebrate the official start of the ski season.
Aucland property consultant Greg Marler will host a public open day on July 7 to reveal plans for his Roys Peninsula development.
Prime Minister Helen Clark was in a laid-back mood yesterday as she enjoyed the slopes of Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort for the second time in four years.
Former Polish professional dancer Kasha Szot (29) loves dance but until this month never allowed herself to dream she might have her own studio.
The Mt Cardrona Station plan change hearing was adjourned by independent commissioners yesterday at the end of four days of town planning evidence, much of it focusing on a proposed new village below the Cardrona skifield.
Public access to the west side of Lake Hawea has been "historically unsatisfactory" and walkers and cyclists have not enjoyed a great deal of co-operation in getting it, a hearing has been told.
The organisers of Otago's $5 million mini-Winter Olympics have revised their athlete targets upwards from 600 to 800 and are planning for a flood of elite snow sports competitors to the region in September 2009.
Central Otago police have been asked to investigate a complaint of intentional damage against Queenstown Lakes District Council chief executive Duncan Field following the council's decision last Friday to move a fence on abandoned land opposite the Cardrona Hotel.
The Matukituki Trust has reapplied for resource consent to build a house on Roys Peninsula, after reaching a mediated agreement with the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Wanak's Project Pure - the most expensive infrastructure project undertaken in the Queenstown Lakes district - has hit a snag over the standard of welding joins in pipes laid underground between the town and the airport.
