Teacher aides and other school support staff will meet at Arrowtown School today to plan a campaign to pressure the Government to lift a freeze on school funding.
Two women were taken to Lakes District Hospital with minor injuries after their rental car hit a bank and overturned on Glenorchy-Queenstown Rd yesterday.
The men responsible for opening up public access to high country land between Arrowtown and Glendhu Bay have been recognised by the Walking Access Commission.
The absentee owner of a Fernhill house where a huge party was shut down by police at the weekend has condemned the partygoers' behaviour as ``disgusting''.
A trust set up in 2013 to "bring back the birdsong" to the Routeburn and Dart Valleys is hatching a plan to expand its predator control efforts into a new habitat.
The costs of drilling through harder-than-expected rock on the Kawarau Falls bridge replacement project near Queenstown will be borne by contractor McConnell Dowell.