Auckland recycling and waste company Smart Environmental Ltd is "not the ogre from Auckland" and has a strong community and environmental ethos, director and shareholder Grahame Christian said yesterday.
Wanaka businesswoman Anna Thomas has taken over the town's largest dance studio, Dance Wanaka, and more than 150 dance students could not be happier.
Hawea Flat ski patroller Jon Mactaggart's back-to-back career in the ice business is not the usual kind - he's planning winters on snow and summers making ice creams and sorbets.
Snowboard instructor Richie Johnston (29) says the decision to donate a kidney to his father, Rob Johnston, next month was an easy one to make.
Hunters, anglers and Kidds Bush campers are being reminded the High Court has ruled Hunter Valley Station, at the northwest end of Lake Hawea, can control the opening and closing of Mead Rd during lambing season, until November 18.
John and Mary Lee developed the Cardrona skifield and have spent most of their lives fulfilling their vision of snow sport destinations on Central Otago's Pisa Range, but now it is time to move on. Marjorie Cook reports.
Wanaka adventurer Mal Haskins aborted his attempt in Nepal this week to become the first person to speedfly from an 8000m peak because of high winds and he does not plan another attempt this trip.
Wanaka models Ruth Coghill (78) and Elle Scurr (18) will take to the catwalk in the annual Passion for Fashion show next week, confident in the knowledge they have been schooled by a master.
Wanaka yarn bomber "Knitsy" has struck again, this time hanging several colourful rugby-ball shaped crocheted doilies on a wire-netting fence at the Upper Clutha Rugby Club and Wanaka Showgrounds.
Several campaigns are about to get under way aiming to encourage more summer visitors to Wanaka.
Wanaka Wastebusters has received $118,750 from the Ministry for the Environment to continue and extend its Unpackit packaging waste campaign next year.
Who is Wanaka's "Knitsy", the colourful and anonymous yarn-bomber whose very public works include cupcackes, breasts, fake dog droppings tree pom-poms, downpipe scarves and handrail warmers? Wanaka reporter Marjorie Cook consults the local Stitch n' Bitch knitting circle.
When Wanaka multisporter Dougal Allan (26) goes up against Nelson's Richard Ussher (35) in the Motu Challenge on Saturday, there will be a team of southern foot soldiers at their backs.
Photographer and designer Christopher Thompson talks to Marjorie Cook about his career and his new life in Wanaka.
Wanaka adventurers Mal Haskins and Sophie Ward have set up their base camp on Mt Manaslu in Nepal and are preparing for the first summit opportunity in about three weeks' time.
The Challenge Wanaka Sports Trust is likely to pay nearly $1 million for next January's week-long triathlon festival, at least twice the cost of this year's $407,231 event.
Conditions are dry in the Upper Clutha region, causing concerns for farmers and rural firefighters as they continue to battle accidental vegetation blazes.
Hundreds of powder hounds enjoyed fresh snow and sunny, spring conditions on Wanaka skifields as they celebrated the end of the snow season.
The Sharpridge Trust has appealed part of a resource consent decision relating to a proposed four-lot subdivision in Mt Aspiring Rd.
Wanaka "went mental" last year when the Upper Clutha Rugby Club beat Arrowtown to win the White Horse Cup, the symbol of supremacy for country rugby since 1925.
