Matthew Haggart

Parklife team member Nick Hyne, of Queenstown, impressed audiences and judges in the 2009 Tararua Real Iced Coffee Slopestyle Series at The Remarkables by winning a spot on the podium at each event.

More than 70 competitors battled it out at Treble Cone during the penultimate weekend of the snow season in a bid to be crowned the king and queen of the mountain at the skifield's revived Triple Comp event.

Coronet Peak's three-year contract as designated host of the New Zealand National Alpine Championships has finished, and the country's premier ski-racing event may be primed to go elsewhere.

Wanaka and Queenstown athletes dominated competition on the first day of the national junior freeski and snowboarding championships at Cardrona Alpine Resort yesterday.

Lake Hawea people are being urged to support a fundraising venture for a planned extension to the township's community centre.

The scale of a proposed secondary commercial retail area in Wanaka remains a concern for the commissioners determining whether a Queenstown Lakes District Council plan change for the massive Three Parks development will proceed.

Several national "big box" retailers, approached by a Wanaka resident to find out whether they would base themselves at a proposed secondary commercial centre for the resort, say the Upper Clutha is not on their agenda for expansion.

Treble Cone is reviving the "TC Triple Comp" - a multidiscipline ski and snowboard event being held this week-end.

Teenage hunter Cole McKenzie saved his last bullet to help search and rescue volunteers pinpoint his position yesterday after becoming lost in a forestry block near Beaumont on Saturday evening.

A 21-year-old Wanaka woman escaped being crushed by her convertible Ford Capri yesterday morning after she crashed into a ditch and the vehicle flipped on top of her.

A Queenstown Lakes District Council plan change hearing, to decide whether a proposed secondary town centre and residential development in Wanaka can proceed, resumes today.