Redundancy is not usually regarded as a good thing, but it is when you are talking about a 5km electricity cable running up the side of Mt Roy, above Wanaka.
The Wanaka Watersports Facility Trust is seeking $100,000 from the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) over two years to help pay for its building on the lakefront.
George Wallis wondered why his $150,000-plus Austin Healey was sitting out in his yard at Mt Barker last week when he remembered putting it away in its shed the day before.
Building hotels in residential neighbourhoods was not uncommon, the lawyer acting for Northlake Investments Ltd, Warwick Goldsmith, told a resource consent hearing in Wanaka yesterday.
If the question is, "Should Queenstown Airport share some of its air traffic with Dunedin and Invercargill?" then the answer seems to be: "We’re talking about it".
The chairman of Wellington International Airport Tim Brown has thrown a bucket of cold water over the idea of a new Otago airport to replace Queenstown Airport.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has declined to reveal details of a ‘‘spatial plan’’ that could delay the public release of plans for Wanaka Airport.
Consider the fog. That was the response of long-standing Tarras farmer Pete Jolly to the idea of a new airport in his neighbourhood to serve the Queenstown-Wanaka region.
The Australian national anthem was played at the Anzac dawn service on the lakefront at Wanaka yesterday, and a small group were heard to be singing along.
The Lake Hawea journalist accused of trying to blackmail Queenstown Mayor Jim Boult denies she was part of a smear campaign against the mayor before the 2016 local body election.