She came, she soared and she conquered hearts - but top New Zealand female snowboarder Shelly Gotlieb (31), of Wanaka, could not land a double back flip yesterday at the New Zealand Snowboard Open slopestyle final at Cardrona Alpine Resort.
The world's top-ranked halfpipe snowboarder, Nathan Johnstone (21), is clearly over an ankle injury that deprived him of a chance to knock American maestro Shaun White (24) off the top of the Winter Olympics podium in Vancouver last year.
The slopes, pipes and rinks of Otago are about to be invaded by more than 1000 athletes from 50 nations for the biggest international sporting event on the district's calendar.
An environmental monitoring regime will be put in place at Hawea Flat this month so the Otago Regional Council, farmers and the community can better understand how the introduction of dairying will affect groundwater.
Consent has been granted for the redevelopment of the former Wanaka Youth Hostel site in Upton St into four town houses for visitor accommodation.
Wanaka triathlete Nicky Samuels relaxes in Wanaka earlier this year. Photo by Marjorie Cook.
Wanaka triathlete Nicky Samuels' heart condition is a "common problem in an uncommon person" and the Olympic hopeful has a structurally normal heart that has not been damaged by intensive endurance training, Triathlon New Zealand medical director Dr Judith May, of Tauranga, said yesterday.
A planned air race for corporate high-flyers may bring up to 40 privately-owned jet aircraft to the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow next April and boost business links between China and New Zealand.
Clear skies and jubilant skiers featured when Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort opened for the season yesterday morning, but the weather closed in at noon, bringing more snow to the mountains and rain to Wanaka township.
As coastal South Island wallowed in snow-bound misery yesterday, Wanaka was an oasis of calm and blue skies and easily-negotiated roads.
Wanaka triathlete and baker Simone Maier (31) is starting to reveal more talents than a strong swim-bike-run.
Wanaka's town centre is ticking over quietly and several multistorey buildings are in the pipeline. But how far should town centre development spread? Reporter Marjorie Cook explores some of the issues.
Nordic skiing superstar and Winter Olympic biathlon gold medallist Anastasiya Kuzmina (27), of Slovakia, is scheduled to arrive in Wanaka next month to train and possibly compete in the Winter Games.
A High Court telephone conference has been scheduled for August 1 in the Good Group Ltd's defamation proceedings against Wanaka anti-Kronic campaigner Nigel Greening, the owner of the Wanaka Sun, Aaron Heath, and the newspaper's editor Sue Wards.
Queenstown's Good Group Ltd has issued defamation proceedings against the editor and owner of the community newspaper the Wanaka Sun.
Extreme caution on the Crown Range pass is being urged this weekend, as school holidays begin and skiers head outdoors.
Amid the uproar over a proposed Wanaka Rowing Club shed is a submission from left field - rowers should wear life jackets.
It may be frigid in the 9degC waters of Lake Wanaka, but when it is snowing it is even colder out of the water.
Mount Aspiring Station, arguably New Zealand's best-known high-country farm, has completed the Crown pastoral lease tenure review process and boosted the public conservation estate by 7345ha.
A Saudi Arabian family more used to sand than snow spent a cold and miserable Sunday night trapped in their campervan, stuck in snow on the Crown Range road.
The commercial vehicle investigation unit of the New Zealand Police is looking into why a trailer unit rolled on State Highway 8 in the Lindis Valley yesterday, spilling a small amount of milk on the road.
