Roys Bay at Wanaka was not only full of water yesterday, it was full of the sound of a waiata presented by international opera singer Ramonda Taleni Te Maiharoa.
Each spring since 2007, Peter Bumseng (39) has said goodbye to his wife and three children in Port Vila, Vanuatu, and headed off to work - helping to grow grapes in Central Otago.
In driving rain, on a road littered with tree branches and covered in places with waist-deep gravel, a cyclist was probably the last thing road maintenance crews expected to see yesterday.
Three Otago athletes will be among the 2300 athletes taking part in the 10th Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeong Chang, South Korea, later this month.
Transport and milk companies in the South have been mucking in to ensure West Coast milk does not go to waste and tankers have even been crossing Haast Pass.
On January 19, Wanaka triathlete Simone Maier will head down to the lake for a 3.8km swim; will follow that up with a 180km bike ride and then run 42.2km.
The Westland District Council's property company says it has a ''memorandum of understanding'' with overseas financiers to build a $220 million road between Haast and Hollyford. Mark Price went to Jackson Bay to find out whether such a road would be welcomed.
Snow stopped tourists in their tracks on the Crown Range between Wanaka and Queenstown yesterday morning.
The Croydon Aircraft Company, in Mandeville, near Gore, has been asked by a ''conservation Rambo'' in Zimbabwe to build two microlight aircraft for use detecting rhinoceros poachers.
After more than 13 hours in the air, six members of an American college tennis team will have just minutes to warm up for their first matches in the Wanaka Open today.
Rainy weather did not seem to bother Shaya Laughlin (17), of Cairns, and Jeremy Basset (19), of Geneva, as they headed for the Crown Range on their way to Queenstown on New Year's Day. The pair left Cape Reinga on November 28 and plan to be in Bluff by January 10, raising money as they go for the Sir Peter Blake Trust in New Zealand and Save Our Sea Turtles in Cairns.
''Panic and confusion'' was how a bus driver who arrived in Wanaka from the West Coast yesterday afternoon summed up the mood of tourists affected by the washed out Wanganui River bridge at Harihari, south of Hokitika.
Tourists on the way to the West Coast from the Southern Lakes District were only gradually learning yesterday they would be unable to proceed past the washed-out Wanganui River bridge at Harihari, south of Hokitika.
In the lead-up to yesterday's 50th anniversary Wanaka Rodeo, organisers had been concerned there might be a dust problem.
Ronnie Moffat, of Wanaka, has not become a multi-millionaire school caretaker.
The push to educate camper-van users about the rules of freedom camping in New Zealand has been applauded by Wanaka Top 10 Holiday Park lessee Patrick Perkins.
Having been underpaid $110 each week since the introduction of the Novopay payroll system, Mt Aspiring College caretaker Ronnie Moffat has now learnt he's in line for a $102,772,800 pay packet.
Former Southland regional manager of the Department of Conservation Kerry Mawhinney is refusing to pay to launch his boat at Jackson Bay, in South Westland.
If you remember being drunk and threatening in the Invercargill pie cart 37 and a-half years ago and running away when arrested by a young policeman, it is probably safe enough now to own up.
At the start of the weekend Mt Cook Alpine Salmon, in the Mackenzie Country, had a problem: 10,000 too many young salmon.