Houses are still being built around Wanaka and prices are holding well, developers and real estate agents say.
Wanaka swimmers' simmering frustrations about delays in confirming a new aquatic centre site threatened to boil over at the Wanaka Pool Committee annual meeting on Monday night.
The Wanaka Swimming Pool committee reported on a "rollercoaster year" of lows and highs at its annual meeting this week.
Queenstown Lakes district commissioners have adjourned to consider their decision in the Upper Clutha Transport gravel stockpiling and processing consent application.
A heavily pregnant woman received medical attention after a two-car collision near Wanaka Airport yesterday but neither she nor her unborn child were injured.
It has come to light Upper Clutha Transport's gravel extraction operation in the Cardrona River bed includes a proposal to import up to 15,000cu m of gravel from other rivers for processing and stockpiling at two sites off Ballantyne Rd.
Independent commissioners have adjourned Wanaka Landfill Ltd's gravel extraction and cleanfill operation resource consent hearing, following three days of evidence this week.
The Rhodes family plans to expand the Wanaka Transport and Toy Museum again in a "future-proofing" exercise to cater for the next 10 years of acquisitions and visitor growth.
A staunch opponent of gravel extraction operations in and next to the Cardrona River has hit out at Wanaka Landfill Ltd, accusing the company of digging and then over-filling a very large hole at least a year ago, before applying for resource consent for gravel processing and cleanfill operations.
Lakes Environmental landscape architect Helen Mellsop threw the cat among the pigeons at a gravel extraction consent hearing this week, deeming the Cardrona River site an "outstanding natural feature", for which the toughest planning rules in the district apply.
Long-time Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park managers Gordon Martin and Alan Martin say there is life in the old camp yet and are pleading with the town not to give it up for sports fields.
Two gravel-extraction resource consent hearings have started in Wanaka and are expected to take two weeks.
The Golfside apartment development in Wanaka has been rejected by independent commissioners Trevor Shiels and Lou Alfeld because of a potential catastrophe with underground aquifers and the fact that nearly 55% of the site would be covered by buildings, in breach of zone standards.
A revealing photo (right) taken by a surveillance camera at the Cromwell National Bank automatic teller machine may help Wanaka police crack a crime committed in August.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has been criticised for not releasing information relating to the Wanaka camping ground review and proposed aquatic centre, for consideration at the same time as the proposed Wanaka sports hub.
Wanaka residents are being urged to beat Queenstown to the money and make their thoughts clearly known about future sports facilities for their town.
The Hawea Conservation Park, New Zealand's ninth and largest high country park, was confirmed by the Conservation Minister Steve Chadwick yesterday, during Conservation Week celebrations.
Lake levels are slowly rising at Wanaka and Hawea, with electricity watchers hoping it signals the start of the usual September spring melt and improved South Island generation capacity.
Warbirds Over Wanaka has appointed Invercargill-based chief executive Roger Clark and Wanaka-based events manager Mandy Deans to run the 2010 airshow.
A group of gun-toting Wanaka women is taking the world by storm - but not for themselves; for their children.