''Overstated'' and ''emotional'' criticisms from neighbours of a Wanaka plan change could not be given the same credibility as professional opinion, lawyer Warwick Goldsmith says.
Two backpackers who allegedly flooded five Queenstown businesses when the pipe they were swinging on broke are seeking diversion.
Wanaka's Braden Currie celebrated back-to-back Longest Day titles at the Coast to Coast on Saturday.
Balclutha police constable Craig Gordon replaced a precious possession on Saturday.
Canterbury's Brendon Vercoe backed up his Friday efforts with telling kayak and bike stages on Saturday to win the open men's two-day individual section of the Coast to Coast.
It seems the New Zealand art market has not only recovered from its post-2008 financial crisis contraction but is experiencing an all-time high.
An Alexandra climate scientist has applied for funding to work with Google engineers to make scientific use of data collected using large balloons that will float in the stratosphere.
Christchurch physiotherapist Brendon Vercoe drew inspiration from his patients at a spinal unit to take first-day honours in the two-day section of the Speight's Coast to Coast yesterday.
Wanaka has enough zoned land to supply the housing market for decades to come and creating a new zone now which would provide 1600 more sections is ''too much, too soon'', an urban design expert has cautioned.
Preliminary judging has been completed and the finalists in this year's New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Southland/Otago region have been announced.
Queen honeybees with a spring-cleaning genetic trait are being used as a tool to control varroa mite rather than using miticides.
The use of drones as an agricultural tool is likely to become more popular in the future but Federated Farmers (FFNZ) is concerned there is the potential for misuse around privacy and security.
Silver Fern Farms' (SFF) new premium beef product was shown to about 120 suppliers at a premier selection beef producers' day at the Silver Fern Farms' Finegand works near Balclutha recently.
Samantha Hall (14), of Stirling, has won the Southern Rural Life Young Herdsperson of the Year for the third year in a row.
Braden Currie will have one eye on the crown and one eye on a familiar dark horse when he lines up for the Longest Day section of the Coast to Coast tomorrow.
Wanaka residents who support the rezoning of a large swathe of rural land for urban use should be ''very, very ashamed'', an opponent of the development says.
Glad Cross' golf game started out well below par on Tuesday, but the 91-year-old Wanaka woman finished it on a high after scoring her fifth hole-in-one.
Jess Simson is ready for a step up in class at the Coast to Coast this weekend.
A council planner's view a proposed 1600-lot Wanaka subdivision should have its number of dwellings more than halved has been backed by the Upper Clutha Environmental Society.
The inclusion of a retail precinct in a proposed 1600-lot Wanaka subdivision is among the issues being debated at a hearing this week.
