Wanaka snowsports athletes Jossi Wells and Mitchell Brown will return to defend their respective half-pipe titles in free-skiing and snowboarding at the Cardrona Games next week.
Queenstown snowboarder Nick Hyne is well placed to topple Noway's Roger Kleivdal from his top qualifier spot at the FIS Continental Cup slopestyle event at Cardrona Alpine Resort.
A resource consent application for a luxury home on the development-sensitive landscape of Roys Peninsula, near Wanaka, has been backed by one of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's top planners.
International ski teams have scaled back some of their involvement with Southern Lakes skifields as training programme funding cuts brought on by the worldwide recession hit home.
A 13-year old boy found in an alcohol-induced coma on the last night of a New Zealand Snowsports junior training camp in Wanaka appears to have been the victim of a peer-pressure drinking incident.
Emergency services were called to a kitchen fire at a Lake Hawea house on Tuesday night.
Weary Matukituki Valley trampers in the Mt Aspiring National Park will probably be appreciative of the new Liverpool hut - 1070m above sea level.
Treble Cone shareholders have responded to a plea to raise $1 million in additional capital to help secure the skifield's immediate future, alleviating fears it would be sold.
More than $140,000 is being invested in equipment and infrastructure by the directors of the proposed New Zealand Winter Games next year.
Freeski athletes will be able to qualify for an international extreme event, the ESPN Winter X Games, when they compete at New Zealand's Winter Games in Otago, this August.
Winter sports fans should be pencilling in their holidays for August with the announcement yesterday of a confirmed programme of events for New Zealand's first Winter Olympics-style games.
Snowsports New Zealand chief executive Ross Palmer has denied a drinking culture exists among snowsports athletes.
Black ice is believed to be a contributing factor to a crash on State Highway 6 about 6km north of Makarora, where a coach full of tourists and a Mercedes car smashed into dense forest on Saturday afternoon.
An operational dispute between the Queenstown Lakes District Council and the contractors responsible for Wanaka's Project Pure sewage treatment plant has cost ratepayers at least $200,000.
Four injured people were evacuated by helicopter from a crash site in the Main Divide, near Makarora, this afternoon after a tourist bus with 44 passengers and a Mercedes carrying an elderly Dunedin couple collided.
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes said yesterday securing continued public access to Wanaka's mountain-biking mecca, Plantation Forest, was on the council's agenda.
Ongoing problems at Wanaka's $21 million Project Pure wastewater and sewage treatment network have left the Queenstown Lakes District Council wanting more from the beleaguered plant's builders.
The New Zealand Army has undertaken a major training operation from the Waitaki Valley and across to Central Otago this week. Operation Jaffa, involving more than 120 personnel, will continue until June 5.
Pre-season operations intensified at Wanaka's skifields this week.
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes has joined forces with three North Island mayors in a bid to alleviate mounting concerns about projected escalating debt levels for his council.
