A $9.7 million swimming pool could be part of the Wanaka Sports Facility in the town's new commercial and residential Three Parks subdivision, if a recommendation is adopted, and the public agrees.
It will seem hard for dedicated Treble Cone skiers and snowboarders to imagine, but the author of the official history of their favourite field - a book called Treble Cone, launched in Wanaka on Saturday night - never once set his foot in a ski-binding during the eight years he spent researching and writing.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday stood by the version of the proposed navigation safety bylaw it put out for public comment.
The family of the 53-year-old man who died in a fire in Wanaka, early on Thursday has described his remarkable life as a ''gutsy'', hitchhiking paraplegic.
Four hundred and fifty specially bred roses are being planted in the Cardrona Valley in readiness for the opening of a new distillery.
Police have released the name of the man who died in a fire in a granny flat in Albert Town yesterday morning.
Tjhe Queenstown Lakes District Council's proposed navigation bylaw is not worded in the way originally intended by harbourmaster Marty Black.
Cardrona Valley farmers are being advised by police to check their stock, after a reported theft of sheep.
The butter chicken mousse dessert served with chocolate salted nut bar and berry and chilli water ice might have been just a step too far for the 19 judges, but it did not matter in the end.
Initial interviews with witnesses to Saturday's fatal Helicopter Line crash on Mt Alta, near Wanaka, are expected to be completed today or tomorrow morning.
Three Transport Accident Investigation Commission investigators spent five hours yesterday on the side of Mt Alta, near Wanaka, inspecting the Helicopter Line helicopter that crashed on Saturday.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council came under fire at a hearing in Wanaka yesterday over changes it is proposing to its navigation safety bylaw.
Imenerd Boem and Sverre Haeve are perfect examples of the benefits already flowing from a change in status for the Merino Muster cross-country ski race at the Snow Farm.
With the weather in the lowlands inconsistently cold this winter, curlers have had to look to the highlands.
The eight-time winner of the Race to the Sky hill climb at Cardrona just might compete next April in a car running on electricity rather than petrol.
The earthquake-related problems with Wanaka's community swimming pool have disrupted progress on the controversial plan for administering the Lake Wanaka lakeshore.
Who would have thought flying model aircraft might one day be a job? But by the end of this month, one of 20 Otago applicants for just such a job will be starting work.
A start is due in about a month on the long-awaited extension to Wanaka's skateboard park on Pembroke Park.
After 40 years delivering the mail in Wanaka, postie Edwin King has hung up his bag for the last time.
Aurora Energy is offering an improved landscaping plan and less reflective paint for an electricity substation it wants to build near the Hawea Whitewater Park in Camphill Rd, Hawea Flat.
