Marjorie Cook

Nathan Fa’avae’s Team Avaya was still leading the Godzone Adventure Race yesterday afternoon, 54km into a trek through the Eyre Mountains, on the way to Dead Dog Flat.

Team Avaya got off to a flying start at Godzone at the weekend, but several other athletes had to be choppered off the alpine course with illness or injuries.

The Ministry of Health has confirmed 15 people living in the Southern District Health Board area have been granted a vaccine pass exemption, from 593 granted as of February 1.

Smiles wreathed the faces of rugby identities Richie McCaw and Rob Nichol as they began the first day of their 710km "coast to coast" at Jackson Bay, Haast, yesterday.

Rapid antigen tests are hard to come by in Wanaka and the price for a single test was more than $20.

Police officers from Otago were sent to join their North Island colleagues at the Parliament protest and occupation in Wellington, although yesterday it was in the process of being shut down.

Queenstown and Wanaka residents’ increasing dissatisfaction with their council is disappointing and also highlights the impact of Covid-19 on the area, the deputy mayor and chief executive say.

World champion Team Avaya is preparing to defend its title at the 10th Godzone adventure race, which this year is a west-to-east traverse of the South Island.

Promising Wanaka biathlete Campbell Wright has not had time to rest after making his Winter Olympics debut.

Christchurch International Airport has helped establish an annual $30,000 community fund for Tarras, but an opponent of the company’s planned airport says it will have strings attached.

The first woman in New Zealand to win the young plumber of the year award got her start in the industry after a chat in the pub.

The Queenstown Lakes district’s deputy mayor cannot believe "no-one gives a rat’s" about the development of the Wanaka lakefront after community consultation on stage 5 of the $13million project...

Active transport connections through some of Wanaka’s proposed developments could end up going nowhere, which is an "atrocious" result for pedestrians and cyclists, a Queenstown Lakes district...

Film industry workers may stay on site at the proposed multimillion-dollar complex on the outskirts of Wanaka but not visitors, a fast-track panel has decided.

Workers can stay at Wanaka’s Silverlight Studios complex - but not visitors, a fast-track panel has decided.