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Wanaka Yacht Club members held a minute's silence before their weekly twilight race series yesterday evening for long-standing club member Trevor Hawke, who is presumed drowned after he fell overboard in a boating accident on Lake Wanaka a week ago.

The steel cathedral sculpture which won the people's choice award at the Sculpture in Central Otago exhibition has a new permanent home near Wanaka.

Wanaka Primary School staff and pupils and representatives from funding organisations celebrated the official opening of the school's new $860,000 hall (pictured at rear) yesterday.

The Dunedin City Council (DCC) has no intention to alter its stance on the fluoridation of the city's water supply, despite being served "formal notice'' of legal action from a national anti-fluoridation organisation, the DCC says.

The steel cathedral sculpture which won the people's choice award at the Sculpture in Central Otago exhibition has a new permanent home near Wanaka.

After years of work gaining the necessary consents and zoning to build an alpine residential and visitor accommodation village in the Cardrona Valley, the developers of Mt Cardrona Station have put the 134ha high-country property on the market.

The Wanaka man presumed drowned after falling overboard while sailing on Lake Wanaka on Thursday had more than 40 years' yachting experience and had been recognised nationally for his yachting contributions.

Wanaka police will call in navy divers equipped with specialist underwater sonar equipment to continue the search for missing yachtsman Trevor Hawke in Lake Wanaka.

Rozie Robinson (Hill City) gave herself a belated 21st birthday gift with an impressive victory in the senior women's section of the Otago road walk championships on Saturday.

After three days of searching there is still no sign of missing Wanaka Yacht Club member Trevor Hawke, who fell overboard while sailing in Roys Bay, Lake Wanaka, on Thursday night.

It was a weekend of two halves for local rowers.

The children of Port Chalmers Kindergarten were given a big green thumbs up when they were visited by Tui School Garden Challenge judges earlier this month.

Police hold out little hope of survival for a Wanaka man who fell overboard while sailing on Lake Wanaka last night.

Filmmaker Tyler Perry is defending his controversial decision to cast reality television star Kim Kardashian in an upcoming film about marriage.

Construction of a helipad at the new Wanaka Lakes Health Centre in Cardrona Valley Rd began this week.

One of the stars of Sir Peter Jackson's The Hobbit was spotted in Queenstown yesterday.