New Zealand holiday parks are being advised to add a rice-cooker to their kitchens in readiness for Chinese tourists in camper vans.
One of the biggest private owners of land and assets along the Clutha River, Contact Energy, has begun disposing of land it no longer requires.
Contact Energy stands to make a substantial windfall on one small property it owns near Queenstown, if it decides to sell. In 1985 the government-owned Electricity Corporation of New Zealand...
The Upper Clutha Tracks Trust is seeking an "aha" cycle track idea to which it can turn its fundraising and planning attention.
Wanaka will play host next month to the first event in the lead-up to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia.
Some observers thought the Snow Park on the Pisa Range would be lucky to open this season, but skiers and snowboarders have been happily riding the lift and trying the jumps and rails. Wanaka reporter Mark Price finds out what's happening up on the mountain.
A clearer picture of how ambulance services in rural Otago and Southland are coping after-hours could emerge from a report due to be completed for the Southern Primary Health Organisation in two or three weeks.
The "short-term fix" to ensure Wanaka has a 24-hour ambulance service has been described by Wanaka general practitioner Dr Susie Meyer as a "Band-Aid" for a problem that requires a long-term solution.
The new owners of Dunedin's Best Cafe hope Bluff oysters will get their new venture off to a flying start.
Vandalism of a boundary fence and gate at Dublin Bay has led the Department of Conservation (Doc) to lock the entrance gate to its reserve there and cancel firewood permits.
After more than a week of sub-zero night temperatures, pockets of hoar frost lingered at Hawea and along the Upper Clutha River yesterday.
The family of a woman killed by a St John ambulance driver who fell asleep at the wheel has called for changes to the way Wanaka's ambulance service is run.
Wanaka came close this weekend to having no local ambulance service at night - the town covered instead by the Cromwell ambulance, more than 40 minutes away.
Wanaka came close this weekend to having no local ambulance service at night - the town covered instead by the Cromwell ambulance, more than 40 minutes away.
Five more sheep have died in the Wanaka area as a result of attacks by dogs.
The latest incident occurred on Wednesday night on a 2ha farmlet in Studholme Rd.
One sheep was killed in the attack and owner Andrew Penniket said yesterday he had to kill the other four because they were so "badly mangled".
Two weeks after starting Wanaka's first public transport service, cab company Yello has put the service on hold.
What makes the city of Oberwiesenthal famous is a question few in Otago besides Snow Farm cross-country ski instructor Ronny Fudel are likely to know the answer to, without consulting the internet.
First-time ice-carver Lucy Waters, of Albert Town, took second place, and a $500 prize, in the Zumwohl On Ice sculpture competition at Treble Cone skifield yesterday with her "single cone schnapps cooler", while Chris Riley's kea took the $800 first prize. Six sculptors spent two days chipping away at the one-metre tall Christchurch-made ice blocks.
The word seems to be spreading through the kea community - "use a stick!"
The good falls of snow on southern skifields in the last few days have not gone unnoticed across the Tasman.