Aaron Blackledge
Finding things to do is often hard when you are 14, but Wanaka teenager Aaron Blackledge (18) believes he can help.
Aaron, a year 13 pupil at Mt Aspiring College, has taken over organising private parties for Wanaka's young teenagers from Blue Moon founder Sophia Dewaal, who is now at university in Wellington.
The Wanaka community must take a good, hard look at itself for allowing teenagers to poison themselves with alcohol, Wanaka Community Board chairman Lyal Cocks said yesterday. This follows an...
A three-bedroom, furnished modern villa with a $1 reserve is being sold in an online auction - and the leading bid yesterday was $210,000.
The first step towards realising a long-held dream for improved health services in Wanaka was taken yesterday, with the start of earthworks for a multimillion-dollar integrated healthcare centre in Cardrona Valley Rd.
The search is on for a Wanaka landowner willing to provide a site for new telecommunications masts, after the release of an Environment Court decision last week confirming the Roys Peninsula masts must go.
When Sonia Jones put a red, white and blue deckchair on the balcony of her Wanaka guest house at 236 Beacon Point Rd, she didn't think it would be a big deal.
Defining art is likely to be contentious and complicated when perhaps all that is needed is common sense, Queenstown Lakes District Council senior policy analyst Ralph Henderson says.
Wanaka beauty therapist Krystal Lucas (19) says her dog, Bella, is not aggressive and was only saying "hello" when she leapt at a senior citizen in December, catching a claw in the complainant's jersey and triggering a "dangerous dog" classification.
The owners of a dog deemed dangerous by the Queenstown Lakes District Council will today appeal the classification at a public hearing in Wanaka.
A 17-year-olds Suzannah Schwarz and Alex Black returned from Dunedin on Sunday with words of praise still ringing in their ears for their debating skills at the 2010 Otago-Southland regional Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA) competition.
The beige-toned, shrouded Luggate Red Bridge on State Highway 8A will soon be brightening the days of motorists again.
A "Whodunnit" has popped up in Lake Hawea's Noema Tce, keeping Lorraine and David Paterson entertained guessing which neighbour has played a prank on them.
Wanaka resident Ralph Markby is so annoyed by unattractive, drain-dwelling algae he has complained to the council.
Flooding concerns were replaced by tramping safety warnings as fine weather returned to the Wanaka region over the weekend and yesterday.
Calling all collectors of period costume and ancient agricultural machinery - the Upper Clutha Historical Records Society is organising a district-wide celebration of 150 years of European settlement at Queen's Birthday weekend and needs your help.
Wanaka retailers were playing a waiting game with Lake Wanaka yesterday, most of them confident it would not flood.
Mt Barker farmers Bill and Raylene Jelley have been awarded a $3375 reduction in Queenstown Lakes district commissioner's charges invoiced by John Matthews, following a hearing on Monday.
Haast school children had a rare chance on Thursday to question Prime Minister John Key about his lifestyle choices and policy decisions.
One of Wanaka's unofficial lake level gauges is a much photographed willow tree in the west corner of Roys Bay.
Lakes Wanaka and Hawea continued to rise steadily yesterday, with local residents keeping a close and anxious eye on advancing waves and the swelling Bullock Creek.
