A dispute between neighbouring Wanaka property owners remains unresolved, after a bid by Fiona Graham to lift an injunction on her property failed in the Christchurch District Court.
Wanaka singer-songwriter Gordon Smith is hoping for a hot reception at a homecoming concert tonight.
Police are investigating an alleged group beating, which has blighted the aftermath of the funeral for Haast rescue pilot Morgan Saxton, at Wanaka Airport, last week.
A Lake Hawea section has sold at auction for what is believed one of the lowest Upper Clutha property prices in recent history.
It was an AA emergency callout of an unusual nature for a group of Cantabrians at Lake Wanaka yesterday.
A scrub fire at Lake Hawea yesterday has been cited by firefighters as a timely warning for those lighting fires and carrying out permitted burn-offs around Central Otago.
A $50,000 temporary building should be secured to help ease overcrowding woes for staff at the Wanaka police station.
Fire investigators want information from motorists to try to establish how a massive scrub fire started near the Crown Range Rd on Sunday.
The motors were running as more than 100 motorbike enthusiasts took to the highways of Central Otago in the first Four Lakes Rally on Saturday.
Helicopters and rural firefighters battled a large scrub fire which blazed across 40ha of steep land near the top of Crown Range Rd yesterday afternoon.
Wanaka cyclist Scott Rainsford fractured two vertebrae when he crashed out of the Tour of Southland last week.
A lakeside nursery at Wanaka is hoping to sow the seeds of community involvement to help regenerate native plant species along the Clutha River corridor to the coast.
Community sports clubs in the Queenstown Lakes district may have to pay $20,000 to use ratepayer-owned sports grounds.
Motorcyclists in the Wanaka area have been checking their bikes this week in preparation for a ride to support St John Ambulance Services.
A "simple" ski-pole rig devised by a deep-sea diver and ex-SAS Army officer has helped recover the body of Haast rescue pilot Morgan Saxton and his helicopter from the bottom of Lake Wanaka.
Dive and salvage teams searching for missing Haast pilot Morgan Saxton have found the engine of his Robinson R22 helicopter on an underwater shelf 74m below the surface of Lake Wanaka.
Dive search teams yesterday discovered the helicopter engine of missing Haast pilot Morgan Saxton's Robinson R22 on a lake bed shelf 74m beneath Lake Wanaka.
Spontaneous applause from Upper Clutha residents closed a slick and informative Otago Stadium roadshow presentation in Wanaka last night.
The search for missing Haast pilot Morgan Saxton, who disappeared while flying a helicopter over Lake Wanaka on Saturday, resumed this morning with little hope of him being found alive.
The helicopter pilot missing near Wanaka is Morgan Saxton, the Haast man convicted of stealing greenstone with his father in a high-profile case.
