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.
Winter Games NZ is one of 13 organisations benefiting from the latest round of donations by the Community Trust of Southland.
It is too easy for children to get alcohol, Wanaka and Queenstown police and youth workers say, but youth drinking is a year-round issue connected to celebrations and not just a ski season problem.
Wanaka Yacht and Power Boat Club commodore Chris Conroy has been named the Otago Yachting Association sailor of the year, for his efforts in encouraging youth sailing and new members.
The Wanaka boy at the centre of a drinking episode had been discharged from Dunedin Hospital and was feeling "OK", his mother said when contacted yesterday.
A 13-year-old Wanaka boy was dicing with death when he consumed one litre of 35% proof spirits within 30 minutes last Saturday night, National Addiction Centre director and University of Otago psychiatrist Prof Doug Sellman, of Christchurch, says.
A 13-year-old Wanaka snowboarder remained in Dunedin Hospital yesterday, being treated for alcohol poisoning.
T. J. Irvin's "Slammer" does not look like the most modern piece of gardening equipment ever invented by man.
Sir Edmund Hillary's famous phrase "we knocked the bastard off" continues to echo for generations of adventurers, and none more so than deep-sea diver Bill Day (51), of Wellington, and soon to be of Wanaka.
Opposition is mounting to the proposed $21.5 million sports stadium, sports fields and swimming pool in the centre of Wanaka.
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Concerns about septic-tank hazards, poor bore-water quality and insufficient supply for future residential developments and firefighting have prompted a group of Mt Aspiring Rd residents to call for the town supply to be extended to their prop
Makarora officially took possession of its first fire engine yesterday.
Elizabeth Irvine has long loved writing and recording history.
Entries are flooding in for next month's New Zealand Mountain Film Festival, which is expected to draw more than 1000 people and be worth about $350,000 to the town.
Attempts to retrieve a Robinson 22 helicopter's engine from the bottom of Lake Wanaka proved unsuccessful because of poor underwater visibility.
There was still strong interest in Wanaka's real estate market and people were attending auctions in good numbers, but buyers were putting pressure on prices, Ray White real estate agent Noel Williams, of Wanaka, said yesterday.
Sixty-five hunters brought home more than 900kg of pork at the inaugural Lake Hawea Hotel pig hunting competition.
Two of several abandoned sections near the Cardrona Hotel are now for sale by tender on the real-estate market, after the Public Trust took registration of the titles recently.
Kahu Youth's drop-in centre, The Crib, will open on Saturday, marking a milestone for the community.
A preliminary report on the possible causes of Haast pilot Morgan Saxton's fatal helicopter accident in November last year is not expected to be completed until at least July.