Developers of a proposed retirement village in Wanaka face more resource consent delays after their application to cut down trees on Mt Aspiring Rd was passed over by the Wanaka Community Board, yesterday.
Wanaka man John Melville has been chosen to help build the Winter Olympics halfpipe in Vancouver in February.
Smokers are being hit with a $100 littering fine if caught discarding cigarette butts in Wanaka's public places.
A Wanaka developer's legal appeal to try to keep the proposed Golfside Apartments development alive has been struck out by the Environment Court.
Wanaka Golf Club professional Garth Domigan successfully defended his New Zealand PGA golf professional title when he fiinished 10th in a Pro-Am tournament in Kaikoura on Sunday.
An application to cut down ash trees beside Wanaka Mt Aspiring Rd will be considered by the Wanaka Community Board today.
The sale of a new house in Wanaka for $486,000 has created a self-sufficiency fund to help secure the future of Wanakafest, the head of the popular community event says.
Upper Clutha school pupils are being given free admission to the first day of Warbirds Over Wanaka next year, in a move designed to educate young people about the historical role of aviation in New Zealand.
If you are the kind of person who loves competing, the return of Wanakfest this year provides a timely opportunity to partake in a plethora of novelty contests.
Battle lines are being drawn by a quartet of heavy-hitting submitters who oppose the uplifting of jet-boat restrictions in the scenic and remote Hunter River at the head of Lake Hawea.
Allowing jet-boats access to the remote Hunter River at the head of Lake Hawea is back on the agenda again for the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Construction of an Otago Regional Council-funded section of track providing the final connection in a lakeside trail between Wanaka and Glendhu Bay is under way.
More than 200 injured skiers and snowboarders are transported from the mountains by St John Wanaka staff each year, and a local skifield has returned the favour by raising $15,000 towards a new four-wheel-drive ambulance.
Internationally acclaimed bluegrass folk musician and Grammy Award-winning artist Tim O'Brien is playing live gigs in Wanaka and Dunedin during October. He talks to Matthew Haggart.
The expanding network of trails and cycleways across the Upper Clutha is providing a valuable infrastructural asset for both tourism and local communities, Wanaka woman Meg Taylor says.
Rippon Festival directors are prepared to give a slice of their ticket sales proceeds to aid relief efforts in the tsunami-stricken islands of Samoa.
The world's largest environmental conservation authority has weighed in with a criticism of the New Zealand Government's stance on mining on conservation land.
Another parliamentary Bill to amend Easter trading laws is on the agenda for a pair of tourist-minded MPs, residents of Lake Hawea were told during a fundraising breakfast yesterday.
New Zealand Olympic rower George Bridgewater was urged to consider a career change - to extreme skiing - by his Oxford University team-mates at Treble Cone skifield yesterday.
Climate change protesters spelt out their environmental message on the side of a Wanaka mountain this week, as part of an international movement calling for the reduction of harmful greenhouse gases.
