Hold the front page, again. The mantle of gloom over Wanaka last week has been replaced by a mantelpiece filled with dozens of rabbit skins and 120 beer bottles.
The New Zealand Mountain Film Festival gets under way in Wanaka this week, putting real-life outdoors adventure on the big screen.
Finlay Woods(15) is a young man of action rather than words.
It is unlikely any of the 32 unsecured creditors owed $73,943 by The Local (Wanaka) Ltd (in liquidation) will receive a payment, liquidator Trevor Laing, of Dunedin, says in a report to the Companies Office.
Wanaka's ability to host a world cup halfpipe snowboard event this year has been restored
Speed-riders barely take off, which only makes the landing more difficult.
Two abandoned 1012sq m sections near Cardrona village did not sell after tenders closed recently, although the Public Trust is willing to consider more offers, senior trust manager Dennis Robertson said.
A last-ditch effort was launched yesterday to convince town planners to build a new swimming pool in Wanaka within 10 years.
Timaru businessman Murray Cleverley has been appointed chairman of Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust, replacing Garth Hogan, of Wanaka, who has retired.
Wanaka swimmers' dreams of a new $11.5 million aquatic centre were sunk yesterday by an announcement the project has dumped from the Queenstown Lakes District Council's 10-year plan.
Roys Peninsula has been on the "western front" of a lengthy development battle in Wanaka and could not absorb any more development, Upper Clutha Environmental Society president Julian Haworth said yesterday.
"How much is too much development" is emerging as the single most important consideration in determining whether Cardrona couple Hil Stapper and Mario Kiesow can build a new home on Roys Peninsula.
The Upper Clutha Environmental Society was involved in five cases yet to be heard by the Environment Court and was awaiting a decision in a sixth case, society president Julian Haworth said in his annual report to the society this week.
Lake Hawea inventor T. J. Irwin is delighted with the response to his "retro" digging tool, "The Slammer", at the recent Fieldays agricultural show in Hamilton.
Cardrona Alpine Resort plans to install a fourth chairlift and cut new trails this summer, and the new facilities should be ready for opening day next season.
Snow Sports New Zealand will again host the FIS World Cup snowboard competition at Cardrona Alpine Ski Resort on September 6-7.
Whoever set fire to four telecommunication boxes in Wanaka last week could have put lives at risk, St John and Chorus staff said yesterday.
Wanaka police are continuing to investigate a series of suspected deliberate fires in telecommunication utility boxes, with four boxes now damaged by fire since Thursday.
Fires were deliberately set and lit in two Brownston St telecommunications boxes on Thursday night, sparking a police investigation and disrupting several Wanaka businesses yesterday.
Mt Dobson Ski Area is celebrating its 30th anniversary and the best early-season snow base in recent years by giving away free lift passes on opening day on Saturday.