Mark Price

A snow-blind 27-year-old Canadian man was rescued from Mt Aspiring yesterday, after his father in Australia alerted Wanaka police that his son seemed to be in trouble.

"Many areas" of Otago and Southland have after-hours medical care that is financially unsustainable for general practitioners and unfair to patients, according to a report released by the Southern Primary Health Organisation yesterday.

Angry lessees of a Wanaka holiday park were delivered proof yesterday they are being disadvantaged by the rules over freedom camping.

Unimpressed and annoyed property developer Bob Robertson, of Wanaka, plans to ''crank up'' his new 1000-lot residential development near Christchurch, having lost his Pegasus town development to Todd Property Group.

Two Otago local authorities and two government agencies are investigating ways of turning wilding pine trees into a source of energy.

When Lake Hawea people flush their toilets tomorrow they will, for the first time, be helping to feed sheep and cattle in the Upper Clutha basin.

Lake Hawea film-maker is set to deny Sir Peter Jackson's new 3-D movie The Hobbit, An Unexpected Journey, a prime place in New Zealand film history.

Police have named a 38-year-old Italian man who died in a skydiving accident while filming a tandem jump in Wanaka yesterday.

Crayfishers playing a waiting game in the hope demand from China will help prices rise to last year's levels may be waiting a long time.

Wanaka police yesterday named the 38-year-old man who died in a skydiving accident in Wanaka on Thursday.

Renewed plans to build a 160km Hollyford-Haast highway through the Fiordland National Park will not stack up either environmentally or economically, Forest and Bird maintains.

Three part-time jobs at Wanaka Airport will be lost when Eagle Air suspends its daily Wanaka-Christchurch flights from January.

The Christmas tree in Wanaka's main street seems destined for the chop.

Members of the newly formed Cardrona Curling Club plan to replace their old homemade concrete curling stones with granite stones imported from China.

Wanaka Tourism and business leaders last night expressed disappointment over Air New Zealand subsidiary Eagle Air's decision to suspend its Wanaka-Christchurch service from January.