Damper Bay Estate Ltd is applying for a High Court judicial review of a resource consent that permitted two local authorities to extend Wanaka's lakeside Millennium Track past their property.
Police and search and rescue leaders are reassuring the public this week there is nothing untoward about a light that flashes constantly on Lake Hawea at night.
Running late to get to school has resulted in several Wanaka parents and caregivers being booked for speeding, after police cracked down on driving behaviour during the first two weeks of the first school term.
The New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum in Wanaka was no longer financially viable as a stand-alone unit and would be administered in the future by the Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust Board (WOWCT), it was announced yesterday.
Queenstown Lakes District Council commissioners have reserved their decision on a gravel extraction resource consent application in the Cardrona River.
A new layout for the Upper Clutha A and P Show this year should provide better security for trade exhibitors and improve the flow of pedestrians between Pembroke Park and the Wanaka Showgrounds, co-ordinator Jane Stalker said yesterday.
Festival of Colour co-ordinator Lindsey Schofield was hard-pressed this week to pick her "must-see" show for the six-day Wanaka event in April, but has already decided Ole Ola and Rita and Douglas will be hits.
Disc frisbee supporters say their sport is a fun, social and inexpensive, but others say it is too active to be played at Lismore Park, which would be made unsafe by flying missiles.
A mothballed Skyhawk fighter-bomber may yet grace the New Zealand Fighter Pilots' Museum in Wanaka but museum trust chairman Don Spary of Arrowtown is not holding his breath.
There were 52 Model T Ford motorcars in Wanaka this weekend - enough to drive a different vehicle every week of the year.
Wanaka company director Derek Kirke has described his first day as chairman of listed company New Zealand Wool Services International (WSI) as a "baptism of fire".
The opening of the three-month "Sculpture in Central Otago" exhibition at Rippon Vineyard on Friday has provided a talking point for the district's art lovers.
Wanaka residents are speculating on the fate of the late Gra and Olive West's concrete block lakefront home in the heart of town, after confirmation yesterday the 1131sq m property has been sold.
Everyone was happy at Lake Hawea's Timsfield subdivision on Saturday, after a three-bedroom house sold for $315,000, just 15 minutes after it was passed in at auction for $310,500.
A group of Wanaka artists has suggested the former Wanaka Primary School in Tenby St could be used as a temporary arts hub.
First-time exhibitor Shane Woolridge, of Arrowtown, hopes the three-month Sculpture in Central Otago will boost his ambition to become a full-time artist.
Injured German tramper Felix Ferkau (20) has praised Wanaka volunteer search and rescue team members for being "real heroes" in coming to his aid on the Cascade Saddle, near Mt Aspiring, yesterday and was stunned to learn he had survived a 50m fall at a tramping black spot.
Wanaka Land Search and Rescue team leader Gary Dickson has called for an outdoor education campaign drawing international tourists' attention to New Zealand's alpine conditions.
There are only two choices for Hawea district residents this weekend - "red" or "blue". The annual "town versus country challenge" starts tomorrow night, with a...
Six English ash trees in Wanaka's noted avenue of plane trees in Mt Aspiring Rd are in "very serious decline" and will be removed by the Queenstown Lakes District Council in the next few weeks.
