Two of New Zealand's best youth snow sports athletes did not quite pull off a podium finish in the first event of the world junior snowboard and freestyle championships on Saturday, but were proud to finish with personal bests.
The inaugural world junior snowboarding and freestyle championships opened in Wanaka last night with a parade of up to 500 athletes and officials from 27 nations through main streets of the host town, Wanaka.
Land acquisition deals for roading purposes - at Malaghans Rd and Little Rd and on the Crown Range Rd - have been approved by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
The Wanaka Community Pool will not reopen on August 30 as initially hoped, as more problems have emerged with the 18-year-old facility and its plant, Lakes Leisure facilities general manager Cam Sheppard said yesterday.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council this week approved a new lease to the Fun Centre for a term of 33 years, with a seven-year right of renewal. The new lease sets rent at 5% of turnover or $10,000, whichever is the greater.
The new Wanaka Brain Injury Support Group is providing several residents with new friendships and a fresh focus in life.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has approved a bylaw amendment which changes the Church St, Searle Lane, Earl St and Camp St parking restrictions and signs in Wanaka.
Otago Fish and Game Council chief executive Niall Watson says a decision to "uplift" jet-boating speed limits on the Hunter River is "seriously underdone".
The Queenstown Lakes District Council voted yesterday to raise district rates by 9.1%, in response to a drop in the predicted rate of growth in the district.
In a decision likely to disappoint both sides of a long-running argument over whether Hunter River speed limits should be lifted, the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday decided to create two "uplift periods" on the back-country river.
A decision on where Wanaka's proposed new sports facilities will go is still at least three months away and will have to be made by the newly elected council.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will today be asked to give staff approval to negotiate a draft agreement with two landowners to locate proposed sports facilities in a "greenfields triangle" opposite Mt Iron on the outskirts of Wanaka.
Entries have closed for the inaugural FIS World Junior Snow Sports Championships, with 350 athletes from 26 countries registered.
Gordon and Joan Martin have been two of the happiest campers ever found in the Wanaka area but after 25 years they are retiring to Oamaru and planning a holiday.
Wanaka residents Marjorie Cook, Alistair Madill and Victoria Murray-Orr had all experienced Challenge Wanaka but wanted to find out more about the Challenge brand's flagship race, Challenge Roth, in Germany. Marjorie Cook reports on their experience.
The Department of Conservation has installed new radios in four West Coast alpine huts, enabling trampers and climbers to call helicopter companies directly for a ride home.
The Tarras School 125th jubilee and district reunion has attracted 310 pre-enrolments so far, with more expressions of interest still "floating in", jubilee co-chairwoman Rebecca Chapman-Cohen said this week.
Five Vancouver Olympic halfpipe finalists are among the 260 snowboarders who have entered the New Zealand Open at Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort this week.
At least 10 Olympians were racing in FIS cross-country skiing races at the Snow Farm in Wanaka at the weekend, providing stiff competition for New Zealanders keen to test themselves against some of the best in the world.
An arrest in Wanaka on Thursday takes the number of people processed this season for skifield fraud in the region to 16.
