Mark Price

A University of Canterbury mathematician is urging a revolution in the way the Western world catches fish.

The chances of the Wanaka Yacht Club contributing to the $40,000 cost of saving Lake Wanaka's old McKay St jetty  appear remote.

To ensure they get the best view of the new Matu scientific reserve, near Wanaka, visitors are advised to get down on their hands and knees.

The family of a helicopter pilot who died in a crash in South Westland nearly three years ago is upset over the time it has taken for the Transport Accident Investigation Commission to complete its investigation.

The owner of this "classic'' 1985 Lancia Beta was philosophical as he watched it burn in Meadowstone Drive, Wanaka, about 5pm yesterday.

Homeowners in a rural-residential part of Wanaka are up in arms over the size of sections a developer is planning for a new housing development on 3ha of land next door to them.

An object of ''considerable mass'' but not a bullet, a meteor, an animal or a flying piece of ice.

The sun shone over Central Otago yesterday, but the evidence of the very cold Labour Weekend lay centimetres deep across the mountains.

Police in Wanaka are interviewing the driver of a white four wheel drive utility in connection with their inquiry into the death of a motorist on SH6 between Wanaka and Lake Hawea early on Thursday morning. 

Police yesterday paid tribute to the presence of mind of the 26-year-old Alaskan girlfriend of the man killed in mysterious circumstances on SH6 between Wanaka and Lake Hawea early on Thursday.

The Alaskan partner of 22-year-old Rutger Hale, who was killed by an unidentified object while driving between Wanaka and Lake Hawea last Thursday, is likely to return to the South with some of his ashes.

Police staff in Wanaka and Oamaru are concerned their police stations lack sufficient armoured screening to protect them from the public.

Warbirds Over Wanaka is planning to run one of the fastest motor racing events in the world at its international airshow next Easter.

Lake Hawea paragliding pilot Grant Middendorf (47) has laid claim to another New Zealand record - giving him all three of the country's main paragliding records.

The man who is the focus of investigations into the cause of the Mt Aspiring National Park fire on Monday has been left ''shell-shocked'' by his experience.

The Department of Conservation is interviewing a man in connection with a fire that burnt more than 100ha of forest and tussock land high up in the Mt Aspiring National Park.

Makarora veterinarian Dr Carol Hollebon is more adventurous than most when it comes to dealing with the effluent from her family home.

Use of treated human waste on farmland in Australia is widespread but in New Zealand it seems to be an idea just too hard to swallow. Local authorities such as the Queenstown Lakes District Council are trying to find a place for growing piles of ''biosolids'', as Mark Price reports.