Motocross rider Courtney Duncan's talent shone in the United States but it was a six-month stint punctuated by physical tribulations. She spoke to Catherine Pattison about getting knocked down and getting back up again.
Lakes district skiers and snowboarders scooped five top spots in the 2013 World Heli Challenge awards.
The Combined Churches of Wanaka are offering a series of free candlelit, dessert, date nights, with complimentary childcare, to help give ''happily ever after'' a little boost.
Organic stoneground loaves of The People's Bread, made by a Wanaka family, have been a sellout every week at the Wanaka Farmers Market since February and are now delivered fresh from the family's mobile kitchen. Catherine Pattison meets the bakers.
State Highway 6 from Haast to Lake Hawea reopened to single-lane traffic yesterday afternoon after several massive rocks fell on to the highway earlier that morning, closing the road to all traffic.
A broken alternator-power steering belt hampered top Kiwi rally driver Hayden Paddon from making a flying start as the Rally of Germany began on Thursday night local time (yesterday morning NZ time).
Everything has gone to plan for top New Zealand rally driver Hayden Paddon during the build-up to this weekend'sRally of Germany, where he is competing in the WRC2 category.
Wanaka police are asking for sightings of a black saloon car, with tinted windows, after the male driver offered a lift to a 10-year-old school boy cycling home on Wednesday afternoon.
The Americans flew the flag high at one of the marquee events at the Winter Games yesterday.
After narrowly missing Winter Olympics qualification four years ago, Wanaka skeleton racer Katharine Eustace is channelling all her energy into making it to the starting blocks at Sochi.
Badly-injured skier Toby Kravet warded off hypothermia and death by repeating four sets of exercises over the 17 hours he lay in snow near Treble Cone.
New Zealand team Seagate has completed an epic, six-day mission with a hard-earned second place in the Ecomotion World Series adventure race in Bahia, northeast Brazil.
Putting in a tentative bid has paid dividends for the Wanaka Rodeo Club, which has been chosen to host the New Zealand National Finals Rodeo on March 8 and 9 next year, for the first time since 2001.
The winners of last year's World Heli Challenge, Wanaka couple Will Jackways and Abby Lockhart (above), are hoping one day will be enough to repeat their success following the cancellation of the second scheduled day.
A photo on a social media site is the only update Winter Games organisers have had on American snowboarder Shaun White's injury.
Worldloppet Ski Federation inspector and race organiser Estonian Epp Paal will be able to report back first-hand on how well the 19th annual Merino Muster, at the Snow Farm, is run today.
Wanaka has been both home and training ground for two of New Zealand's most successful adaptive snow sports athletes, Carl Murphy and Adam Hall.
All banter aside, the four Wells boys from Wanaka really are a tight band of brothers.
Turning the vacant former Wanaka Medical Centre at 21 Russell St into a 40-bed backpackers accommodation has been proposed.
Wanaka freestyle skier Fraser McDougall, photographed by Mickey Ross, gets inverted as part of the World Heli Challenge Freestyle Day at Mt Turner in the Wilkin Valley, near Makarora, on Monday.
