Marjorie Cook

The Wanaka History Society — until this year the Upper Clutha Historical Records Society — works diligently from a windowless room tucked away in a corner of the Wanaka Library.

Wanaka’s lakeside dinosaur slide will be getting a facelift before the Festival of Colour in March, so it can proudly take centre stage in a playground art display by Wanaka Primary School pupils.

Wānaka multisport star Simone Maier, 44, is gunning for her sixth win and the record books when the 243km Coast to Coast Longest Day adventure race is held on Saturday, before retiring from the...

More than 700 athletes will gather at dawn on the picturesque Roys Bay lakefront on Saturday, February 15, for the 19th edition of the Challenge Wānaka Half.

RaceRanger, a pioneering triathlon drafting detection system developed in Wānaka, will make its debut with age-group athletes in February’s Challenge Wānaka Half.

Wānaka will be awash with music, dance, theatre, and literature at the end of March, when the Festival of Colour returns for the 11th time.

Riley Taylor, 24, of Timaru, finishes the 2.5km Ruby Swim first at Lake Wanaka on Saturday.

Wanaka’s best snow sports athletes have been competing at various events around the world this month, collecting medals and achieving personal bests.

Heather Thorne, one of Albert Town’s biggest volunteers, is stepping away from some of her commitments so she can help her Canterbury-based daughter recover from a recent stroke.

Irishman Dermot Higgins, 62, cycled 16,000km around the world to find God in India, swam the 250km Shannon River to connect with the river goddess Sionnan, solo kayaked the 3150km Yukon River to...

Wanaka e-bike designer Alex Guichard, of Le Velo Studio, is excited his four-year labour of love to design and engineer the world’s lightest e-bike is bearing fruit.

Multisporters preparing for next month’s Coast to Coast got a chance to test their paddling form last Sunday during the 50km Clutha Classic kayak race, while other athletes just enjoyed a big day...

Wānaka woman Sammy Burke’s latest creative project, Hydra, was two years in the making.

Wanaka artist Ruby Burke, 22, is the first Artist-in-Residence at Knox College, Dunedin.