A Christchurch man received burns to his arm and leg when the lpg cylinder he was attending to caught fire at the Glendhu Bay Lakeside Holiday Park late yesterday morning.
After running marathons in the Sahara Desert, the Arctic and Antarctic, Spanish bar owner Luis Alonso Marcos (39) has turned his attention to the hills above the Cardrona Valley.
Challenge triathlon chief executive Felix Walchschofer says he ''would not like to see'' disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong as a competitor at any time in the future but might well have no choice.
In the choppy waters of Lake Wanaka, one newcomer and one old hand grabbed hold of the lead in the elite men's and women's Challenge Wanaka triathlon on Saturday, and refused to give it up for the next 226km.
Wanaka triathelete Tony Dodds won his home-town leg of the Contact Tri Series short-course triathalon last night but declined to take home the prize money.
They call themselves ''the repeat offenders'' - seven blokes who have competed in all six previous individual full-distance Challenge Wanaka triathlons.
Telecom is planning to upgrade its mobile data network in Wanaka this year.
Competitors in the Challenge Wanaka triathlon, which began with a swim in Lake Wanaka early today, may be in for another soaking.
At just before 7am tomorrow, 1500 athletes hit the chilly waters of Lake Wanaka at the start of the Challenge Wanaka triathlon. They will swim, cycle and run towards a finish line 196km away, or half that distance in the case of those doing the Lake Wanaka half ironman. Otago Daily Times Wanaka bureau chief Mark Price was on the street during the week asking some of those participants who have no expectation of winning why they do it.
The Lake Hawea community is still in the running to be chosen as the Kiwibank community of the year.
Can she win the Challenge Wanaka triathlon for a fifth time? That was the big question hanging over the head of Gina Crawford when she fronted a media conference in Wanaka yesterday.
Young New Zealand and Australian triathletes need to show more ''mongrel'' if they want to reclaim a place on the world stage.
Predicted heavy rain from tomorrow is raising concerns about possible flooding of Lakes Wakatipu and Wanaka.
A 10-year-old girl thought to have received an electrical shock during a lightning strike at the Wanaka swimming pool has resumed her holiday without needing medical attention.
The big blue whale, the turtle and the prancing horse were there but it was too windy on Pembroke Park, Wanaka, on Saturday for two of the bigger guns of the kite world - the stingrays.
Roys Bay at Wanaka was not only full of water yesterday, it was full of the sound of a waiata presented by international opera singer Ramonda Taleni Te Maiharoa.
Each spring since 2007, Peter Bumseng (39) has said goodbye to his wife and three children in Port Vila, Vanuatu, and headed off to work - helping to grow grapes in Central Otago.
In driving rain, on a road littered with tree branches and covered in places with waist-deep gravel, a cyclist was probably the last thing road maintenance crews expected to see yesterday.
Three Otago athletes will be among the 2300 athletes taking part in the 10th Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeong Chang, South Korea, later this month.
Transport and milk companies in the South have been mucking in to ensure West Coast milk does not go to waste and tankers have even been crossing Haast Pass.
