Hawea Flat graphic artist and mother of two Kim Coll finds out today if she will play a part in a car advertisement based on the New Zealand movie Goodbye Pork Pie.
State Highway 6 through the Haast Pass was re-opened yesterday.
A rockfall at the Diana Falls slip has closed State Highway 6 through the Haast Pass again.
Work to extend Wanaka's skate park on Pembroke Park has been put back until the spring.
Two pupils at Wanaka's Mount Aspiring College were suspended from school last month for ''the supply of marijuana during school time''.
Emailing the Otago Daily Times from his home in Qingdao, China, Kurt Joergensen offered his apologies to Patricia Nolan, who suffered broken bones in her feet, broken ribs and other injuries, and whose car was damaged beyond repair in the head-on crash near Makarora on March 18.
Two ''big ticket'' items of skifield equipment being trucked to Treble Cone, near Wanaka, are the latest sign the ski season is not far off.
Four-year-old Ra might not come with a GPS function, night vision goggles or the power of flight.
Lake Hawea residents are on notice - if they do not take better care of their recycling station, in Domain Rd, the Queenstown Lakes District Council will do away with it.
The Wanaka son of a Gallipoli war veteran claims he and dozens of others like him are being ''grossly mistreated'' by the Government over passes for next year's centenary of the World War 1 Anzac campaign on Turkish soil.
Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean is changing tack in her bid to allow commercial trading at Easter in tourist towns like Wanaka.
Most Wanaka shops traded over Easter in breach of the Shop Trading Hours Repeal Act 1990, but no-one has complained.
Trisha Nolan has made herself a new pair of boots.
New Zealand's car rental industry does not accept the blame for crashes involving tourists who are inexperienced drivers.
A month without rain or frosts would be just the icing on the cake for Central Otago winemakers after a good autumn growing season.
A Wanaka man is upset at what he considers a very light sentence imposed on an Israeli driver who caused a serious crash on State Highway 6 at Gibbston on March 5.
First it was the police, then it was Land Search and Rescue and now it is the turn of the Wanaka Volunteer Fire Brigade.
At 7am on day one of the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow, Jurgis Kairys and his aerobatics plane were in Blenheim.
New Zealand has not seen the last of round-the-pylons jet racing, says John ''Johnny Rocket'' Kokshoorn.
The Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow has signalled it is moving firmly into the jet age.
