After a four-month investigation into an alleged rape, Wanaka police have decided not to prosecute any of the three suspects identified by the 21-year-old female complainant.
The sixth "Sculpture in Central Otago" exhibition will be held at Rippon Vineyard from February 5 to May 1 next year and could feature up to 45 works. It will be the second time the...
A historical photograph archive of the Lake Hawea district is being collated by the Lake Hawea Community Association.
Otago skeleton racers Michael Coutts, of Dunedin, and Katharine Eustace, of Wanaka, are making improvements in speed during their World Cup campaign in the United States, despite finishing outside the top 10 in recent races.
Surely, charity runner Mal Law (50) would have to be a complete lunatic. Seven back-country runs in seven days totalling at least 360km? And nothing even remotely as flat as a pancake on the itinerary?
When Greymouth writer Jackie Gurden set out two years ago to chronicle the lives of her parents Ian and Joy Kane, of Lake Hawea, little did she realise she would solve a family mystery about their origins.
Builders are still investigating the extent of damage at the Creek Cafe and Bar in Dunmore St, following a large kitchen fire on Saturday, and the fate of the building is not yet clear.
A consent hearing for a controversial lakeside development planned for next week has been suddenly adjourned until next year because of legal issues over 417m of the Te Araroa Trail-Millennium Track at Damper Bay.
Shocked Wanaka businessman Stacy Parfitt (35) does not know what the future holds for his new business, the Creek Cafe and Bar, following a serious kitchen fire just after 1pm on Saturday, but hopes it will reopen.
Charity runner Mal Law has finally stopped running, after seven days and 370km of torture.
A 1m-high musical Santa worth $285, about $155 in cash, ornaments, candy canes and a train set were stolen from a temporary Christmas store set up in Anderson Rd by Wanaka Paper Plus last week.
You would have to be mad to run seven back-country runs totalling 360km in seven days wouldn't you? Or utterly dedicated to a good cause.
Work is nearly complete at the new $8.5 million Wanaka Retirement Village, which will be officially opened by Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden today.
Charity runner Mal Law reached his $150,000 fundraising goal for the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation yesterday during his 13-hour run around the taxing Rees-Dart circuit in the Mt Aspiring National Park but has not stopped running.
Swimmers and kayakers have a rare opportunity to race each other in a new Wanaka multisport race to be held on Saturday. But will it be fair? Marjorie Cook talks to three athletes who are keen to test the water.
Charity runner Mal Law (50), of Auckland, has now run at least 188km and passed the half-way mark in his week-long, 360km odyssey of pain on behalf of the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation.
Charity runner Malcolm Law triumphed over the blues yesterday by completing his third long-distance run in three days feeling a "box of birds".
Charity fundraiser Mal Law's second day of long distance running was a grim affair, with the support party of 12 sticking close by the dehydrated athlete over the 55km Young Wilkin circuit.
Charity runner Mal Law had a successful start yesterday in the first of seven daily long-distance challenges, completing the Twin Lakes Marathon between lakes Hawea and Wanaka in 5hr 15min.
A concept design for Ardmore and Brownston Sts, part of Wanaka's town centre strategy, has been completed.
