Marjorie Cook

Wanaka Primary School has created five classrooms and employed five new teachers to cater for 115 pupils from Christchurch.

Wanaka philanthropist Fiona Campbell's love of art was sparked at school. Now, through her Real Art Road Show, she shares her art with schools around the country. Marjorie Cook reports.

Wanaka's new sports facilities will be built at a greenfields site in the Three Parks subdivision on the outskirts of town, following a decision Queenstown Lakes mayor Vanessa van Uden yesterday described as "one of the toughest we have ever made for the Wanaka community".

Freedom campers might be fined up to $20,000 for parking for the night on lake fronts within the Queenstown Lakes District Council's authority, according to a draft bylaw released this week.

A proposed amusement park and tourist attraction on farm land opposite Wanaka Airport will be strongly debated at a planning hearing before commissioners David Collins and Lou Afield which starts at Edgewater Resort today.

Wanaka's Mt Aspiring College pupils formed a heart on the school field yesterday during a fundraiser for victims of the Christchurch earthquake.

Finding a site for Wanaka's sports stadium, aquatic centre and other sports facilities has polarised the town.

When chaos struck in Christchurch's town centre on Tuesday, Wanaka man Leigh Stock abandoned all and ran.

Wanaka's new sports facilities should be built at a greenfields site on the outskirts of town rather than on a camping ground and showgrounds reserve in the centre of the resort, a report released yesterday by Queenstown Lakes District Council community services general manager Paul Wilson recommends.

A proposal by Wanaka artists Christy Rolfe and Heather Kerr to establish an arts hub at the old Wanaka Primary School is gaining momentum.