A bright, ''sparkly'' silver object seen falling from the western sky on Sunday afternoon was probably a rarely seen daylight meteor.
The Westland District Council's property company can expect more questions later this month over where it is getting the money for investigations into the 127km Haast-Hollyford highway proposal.
A $1.5 million motor vehicle test track is being carved out of a hillside at the Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds, on the Pisa Range above Cardrona Valley.
Many more Wanaka residents than usual will find themselves on the front line of the Otago Regional Council's battle against rabbits this winter.
A burnt pork chop and a mediocre salad have ended Tarras farmer Jonny Trevathan's run on television cooking show MasterChef but there is a ''but''.
Take a lean aluminium jet-boat hull designed for racing; swap its heavyweight V8 engine for the gas turbine from a helicopter and you have what Regan Williamson (35), of Queenstown, has - a jet-boat that just might be the fastest in the country.
Two southern volunteer firefighters who have raced up the 1103 steps of Auckland's 328m Sky Tower are moving on to something even tougher.
Wanaka's World War 2 Hawker Hurricane P3351 fighter plane has been dismantled and shipped to a new owner in France.
Even opera-loving babies in Wanaka and Queenstown will be catered for at this year's Festival of Colour.
American Pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh (75) will be one of the speakers at this year's Wanaka Festival of Colour, in April.
The announcement yesterday that Cardrona Ski Resort, near Wanaka, will be put up for sale has drawn a generally positive response from the ski and tourism industries.
A Dunedin artist who has spent many hours inside a computed tomography (CT) scanner is one of those who has given work for this weekend's CT scanner appeal auction in Wanaka.
Wanaka paragliding pilot Grant Middendorf, of Lake Hawea, has claimed the title of national champion at the end of eight days of competition in the skies over Queenstown and Wanaka.
Two European paragliding pilots flying and walking the Southern Alps from Queenstown to Nelson are battling the elements south of Mt Cook on their epic 800km journey.
Paragliding pilots joke their sport is often referred to as ''parawaiting'' - because the weather is often unsuitable for flying.
The company that sprayed young willows and other weeds alongside Lakeside Dr in Wanaka says the work was done ''by the book''.
Usually at 6 o'clock in the evening, Russell Buchanan (90), of Beacon Point Rd, Wanaka, can be found sitting in his lounge watching the television news with his granddaughter.
Were the Upper Clutha lakes once home to beaver? Wanaka historian Richie Hewitt has drawn together all the known accounts of beaver and otter sightings over the last 240 years and does not discount the possibility an animal of that sort lived in the South, or still does. Mark Price reports.
Wanaka has its first ''garden of national significance''.
Overseas visitors travelling in camper vans are more likely to pay for camp sites than New Zealanders in camper vans.