The Clutha River rapids may have provided some boating thrills for participants in the Seagull outboard motor race, but it was a long haul once they reached the smooth waters of Lake Dunstan yesterday.
They might be considered by some as dirty, disgusting, smelly, leaky, and smoky, but for a group of intrepid boaties, that's all part of the charm of using vintage Seagull outboard motors.
Wanaka snowboarders Julianne Bray and Kendall Brown both claimed top ten placings at the Canadian World Cup halfpipe competition in Quebec, yesterday.
Dunedin angler Chris Anderson caught the heaviest salmon in the 10-year history of the Lake Hawea Family Classic fishing competition on Saturday.
Didymmo control spray stations are to be set up for mountain bikers competing in the inaugural Contact Epic cycle event around Lake Hawea.
Wanaka Airport will host a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) training exercise later this month.
A landlord at the centre of a protracted legal battle with the Queenstown Lakes District Council has been ordered to pay back $4150 to five former tenants of her Wanaka Gym Ltd household.
Tourists have borne the brunt of recent thefts from cars between Wanaka and South Westland.
Hawea residents are working to improve accessibility issues and road safety concerns around their local schools.
A car fire which threatened a house in Inniscort St, Cromwell, on Saturday morning is at the centre of a fire safety investigation.
Lakes Leisure chief executive Fiona McKissock has apologised to the Upper Clutha Rugby Club after it was mistakenly issued with an $8000 quote for sports field usage.
One of Wanaka's sports retail businesses is to merge with Southern Lakes alpine and sporting goods company Outdoor Sports.
A volunteer firefighter was cut, by members of his own brigade, from the van in which he was trapped after a motor vehicle accident on the way to a 111 callout near Cromwell yesterday.
Central Otago pipfruit growers are at the forefront of a revolution which is sweeping the world's apple and pear markets.
Former All Black prop Richard Loe is set to join Olympic rowing golden girls Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell in judging the country's tastiest lamb, at the Upper Clutha A and P Show in March.
The bumper apple harvest predicted for Central Otago would have economic effects benefiting the whole community, Ettrick grower Stephen Darling says.
New trail networks around the Upper Clutha remain on track, with contracts up for tender, construction under way and bridges planned for several projects.
Wanaka's $21 million wastewater treatment facility will be brought back on line today several days after mechanical issues resulted in a two-tonne escape of treated solid waste, forcing the plant to close.
An Old Cromwell project was topped off nicely on Wednesday.
Sharpshooters from around the South Island will converge on Wanaka next week for the Wanaka Gun Club's 50th anniversary celebrations.
