Marjorie Cook

With the advent of Christmas and New Year, Wānaka police are entering their seasonal period of reflecting on and preparing for public displays of drunkenness.

Wanaka’s former YHA hostel at 94 Brownston St is being renovated for flashpackers and digital nomads, ahead of a relaunch as a Haka House hostel around April next year.

Wanaka’s Christmas Convoy will make a welcome return to the streets of Upper Clutha towns tomorrow,  collecting food, presents and goodies for Wānaka Community Hub/Link’s foodbank.

Wānaka’s Search and Rescue (Sar) volunteers have been cranking up their rescues since October, as people frequently use personal locator beacons (PLB) to call for help.

One of the South Island’s largest music festivals will have to wait until Monday to find out just how much alcohol it will be able to sell to festival-goers. The Rhythm & Alps festival in the...

One of the South Island’s largest music festivals will have to wait until Monday to find out just how much alcohol it will be able to sell to festival-goers.

Lake Hāwea Golf Club president Steve Smith died in a tramping incident on Saturday, police say.

Wānaka apprentice hairdresser Jazz Edwards, 18, is the pride of her employers’ Mikaela Gallagher and Jaimee Whiston business at Ukiyo Salon, for winning an international award in the first year of...

The Pisa Alpine Charitable Trust (Pact) is pushing on with commitments to develop a day lodge at the Snow Farm for winter and summer use.

There have been no complaints of bikers and joggers colliding in Peninsula Bay Reserve yet, but user conflicts are heading to the Queenstown Lakes District Council boardroom.

Where is the wreck of the General Grant?

A draft development plan for Lismore Park has focused on preserving its existing uses, as well as creating a potential perimeter loop track, doing more native planting, creative reflective spaces...

Bike Wānaka is lobbying for Peninsula Bay’s informal mountainbike trails to be kept for bikers only.

Six Silver Ghosts rolled into Wānaka last Sunday at the end of a traverse of three alpine passes between the South Island’s east coast and the Southern Alps.

A Wānaka developer has applied for non-notified resource consent to build a four-level office and retail block in  Tim Wallis Dr, in Wanaka’s Three Parks subdivision.