Mark Price

The New Zealand Transport Agency is trying to establish better communications between road users and crews working on the problematic slip on State Highway 6 near the Haast Pass.

The Wanaka ward's top-polling councillor Calum McLeod has no truck with the idea of Wanaka breaking free from the Queenstown Lakes District.

Alexandra gold-mining historian Bob Kilgour is urging Otago local authorities to get their cheque books out at a Labour Weekend auction of old mining equipment.

On some of the mornings Linda Wheeler spends behind the counter at Artisans Co-operative Studio there are no customers.

After a ''long, hard'' 24 years with the Clutha District Council, chief executive Charles Hakkaart has resigned, effective from January 10.

One of the country's leading experts in mountain safety is likely to be called in to determine whether a permanent safety rope should be installed along the treacherous Cascade Saddle in the Mt Aspiring National Park, west of Wanaka.

The New Zealand Transport Agency has accepted new safety barriers it installed around the summit of the Lindis Pass on State Highway 8 mean it takes longer to clear the road of snow.

Upper Clutha naturist George Clinch claims a neighbour is using cattle to try to run him off the land he has been camping on for the past seven years.

Operators of southern skifields will be hoping for a little bit of bonding in the mountains this weekend to counter the danger from avalanches.

A Wanaka man has been given responsibility for one of the key tasks at February's 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia.

Whether it was luck or something else, members of the Judkins family of Lake Hawea were counting their blessings yesterday.

More young people than usual turned out for the Southern Lakes Festival of Colour this year, but where were the blokes?

Five members of a Lake Hawea family were considered lucky to be alive last night after a runaway people mover crashed into their lounge.