The district's Shaping our Futures forum series moved to Hawea Flat on Wednesday night, where bantering residents enjoyed suggesting ways to protect the environment from people.
Ageing heritage trees are being pruned this week in a project aimed at protecting Wanaka's historic "avenue of trees" on Mt Aspiring Rd.
The Lake Hawea community will hold a memorial ceremony and whaka noa (a Maori blessing) at 11am today for missing German kayaker Rene Weisswange (25), who is presumed drowned.
Changeable snow conditions challenged search and rescue dogs and their handlers taking part in the annual LandSAR avalanche assessment camp at the Snow Farm at the weekend.
Several years of preparation and planning is nearing an end for Wanaka adventurer Mal Haskins, who leaves today for Nepal for a world-first speedflying attempt down an 8000m Himalayan mountain peak, Manaslu.
A group of Hawea Flat residents has launched a campaign to protect their bore drinking water supply from the threat of dairy farm effluent.
Kayaker Rene Weisswange (25), of Germany, is still missing nearly two weeks after he disappeared while paddling on Lake Hawea on August 29.
The husband of celebrity chef Annabel Langbein, Edward (Ted) Hewetson, wants to replace an illegal storage shed with a house on their Dublin Bay property near Lake Wanaka, but environmentalists are questioning whether they can be trusted.
The Wanaka Rowing Club is vowing to "be staunch" in its battle to obtain its preferred lakeside site for a clubhouse, despite concerns of Environment Court action and possible legal costs.
A draft report on the fatal Fox Glacier plane crash in September 2010 was not expected until early next year, Transport Accident Investigation Commission spokesman Peter Northcote, of Wellington, said yesterday.
Wanaka businessman Tim Davis expects a "numb bum" after today's 218km scooter ride from Bluff to Queenstown but says it's all for a good cause - the Prostate Cancer Foundation's Blue September campaign.
An internal restructuring approved by the Overseas Investment Office has allowed shareholders from Monaco and Israel to increase their shareholding in Walter Peak Station.
The German kayaker who has been missing on Lake Hawea since Monday was named yesterday as Rene Weissange (25), of Markranstadt, Germany.
The University of Otago is keeping a firm grip on the Michael Forrestal Memorial Shield at the Uni Snow Sports in Wanaka this week, despite strong challenges from other South Island campuses.
Grave concerns are held for the welfare of a missing German man, who has not been heard from since he began a kayaking and fishing trip on Lake Hawea on Monday.
It has been confirmed Camphill Flat Station at Hawea Flat will be converted to dairying, in the first large-scale intensive agricultural activity in the Upper Clutha region.
This year's $3.8 million Winter Games was billed by promoters in April as the southern hemisphere's largest winter sports event, although it has still to attract a significant audience on the ski slopes.
There was an entertaining battle of the sexes at the winter triathlon at the Snow Farm on Saturday, as the field battled for the lead throughout the 6.9km run, 12km bike, 9.5km cross-country ski event.
Daffodil Day means pikelet day in Wanaka, where once a year for the past 20 years, a spatula-wielding army of volunteers has made cream-topped morning tea shouts to raise money for the Cancer Society.
The Lake Hawea Community Association's invitation to Australia-based farmers Jim and Jenny Cooper to discuss the region's first large-scale dairy farm at a residents' meeting has been turned down.
