Property developer Allan Dippie looks likely to be the saviour for a group of disgruntled Meadowstone residents opposed to a neighbouring proposed retirement village at Wanaka.
Wanaka Primary School threw open the gates to welcome a couple of oversized new entrants yesterday.
Unseasonal weather has been the bane of holiday-makers recently and has boosted rainfall levels to near record levels in Wanaka, for the month of December.
The former husband of missing Auckland tramper Irina Yun has promised their 4-year-old daughter he will bring her mother home alive.
A fire lit at Dublin Bay by vandals yesterday, and fuelled by smashed camping signs, had the potential to destroy property in the area, Department of Conservation Wanaka manager Paul Hellebrekers said.
Searchers looking for missing Auckland tramper Irina Yun have given up hope of finding her alive after the discovery of her pack in the Dart River yesterday afternoon.
The Wanaka Community Pool reopened yesterday under new management - Queenstown Lakes aquatic operator Lakes Leisure.
New Zealand's top big mountain freeskier Sam Smoothy, of Wanaka, has had his assault conviction quashed in the High Court at Christchurch.
Dunedin GP Jan Cottle was enjoying an idyllic family picnic in the Matukituki Valley on Boxing Day when a jet-boat fatality shattered the tranquil setting.
Camping grounds around Otago are filling with visitors as holidaymakers head to their favourite spots in droves.
A highly visible police presence is being maintained in Wanaka as holidaymakers arrive in their droves.
A 19-year-old American was flown to Dunedin hospital with broken legs after the motorbike he was riding collided head-on with a campervan near the Gates of Haast bridge on State Highway 6 on Saturday evening.
A fatal jet-boat accident on the Matukituki River yesterday in which a young English doctor was killed occurred on a dangerous stretch of water where a council bylaw prohibits boaties from travelling.
The Lake Hawea Hotel is a small pub which has earned itself a reputation for making big noise come the holiday season. Reporter Matthew Haggart previews the impending arrival of some of New Zealand music's hottest acts for the Lake Hawea summer concert series.
More than 40 friends and family members from the Wanaka Combined Churches pitched in together to put on a Christmas Day feast for people away from their homes.
A new residential subdivision at Luggate village, near Wanaka, is the second Upper Clutha development to try to entice buyers with the promise of affordable prices.
The push is on to develop elderly care services in Wanaka, with the developers of three proposed complexes vying to be the first to establish independent living at stand-alone retirement villages.
Christmas goodies and groceries were stacked almost as high as the ceiling at the headquarters of Wanaka Community Services yesterday, after Upper Clutha residents responded to a foodbank appeal.
The race to establish retirement villages in Wanaka is heating up, with the announcement Cardrona Valley Rd landowners Peter and Dee Gordon intend to begin construction on their $100 million lifestyle development next year.
If you thought this December had been one of the wettest ever - then you would be right.
