Matthew Haggart

A steady stream of water flowed through a Wanaka property yesterday as police and council authorities dithered over investigations into the likely cause of the event.

The Slur-Tones' sound is one which has evolved throughout the high school years of the band's founding members Fabian Shaw and Yannick Weastell.

One of New Zealand's hottest musical talents reckons Wanaka high school rock band the Slur-Tones have got what it takes to forge their own path to musical greatness.

Minister of Education Chris Carter will visit Wanaka in the next few weeks and is expected to make a formal announcement the resort's overcrowded primary school is to be shifted.

Spring rain inflows and low outflows have allowed Lake Hawea to replenish and the level of the hydro storage lake is the highest recorded for almost three months.

A busload of University of Otago students were lucky to escape serious harm when the brakes failed and their bus crashed off the Cardrona skifield access road this afternoon.

Sir Tim Wallis says his life has been one of persistence and perseverance and the two qualities have "always" accompanied him throughout an extraordinary 70 years.

Weed control methods being used in Lake Wanaka are making "good progress" against the noxious water weed lagarosiphon.

Crash investigators were busy yesterday inspecting the air braking system on the Passenger Transport Ltd bus that careered off the Cardrona skifield road on Saturday afternoon.

Wanaka band The Slur-Tones has the best song in the country for the 2008 Smokefree Rockquest.

A busload of University of Otago students were lucky to escape serious harm after a suspected mechanical failure sent the 22-year-old bus careering off the Cardrona skifield access road on Saturday afternoon.

It is hard to imagine a snowboard being the one item that would lead someone to the tropical island archipelago of the Bahamas.

A Wanaka bakery has been voted New Zealand's best, less than a month after it was convicted and ordered to pay nearly $12,000 for selling a pie which put a Tauranga man in hospital.

It is the final countdown for Mt Aspiring College rock band the Slur-Tones.

The first stand-alone retirement village in the Queenstown Lakes district is on track to be built next year, with developers Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) "extremely pleased" after two meetings with interested buyers.

A lost 41-year-old tramper was found alive near Mt Pisa by Wanaka Search and Rescue (Sar) team members.

Driving doesn't get cooler than this. Pisa Range vehicle-testing operation the Southern Hemisphere Proving Ground has opened its specialised ice-tracks to the paying public this year. Wanaka reporter Matthew Haggart went along for the ride.