Improved signs and better monitoring of Lake Hawea freedom camping problem spots were among measures proposed at a meeting held to discuss freedom camping issues.
The farmer whose permitted burn-off sparked a large fire on Roys Peak, near Wanaka, on October 15 has been found responsible for the blaze.
Queenstown Lakes District Council organisational review which begins today is chief executive Adam Feeley's ''No 1 priority''.
For the first time since its launch in Lake Wanaka almost 18 years ago, the pusher boat for the Minaret Station barge was taken out of the water this week to be surveyed.
Retired Wanaka GP Dennis Pezaro has called for freedom camping to be stamped out, before those in breach of freedom camping bylaws cause a serious norovirus outbreak in New Zealand.
A Tarras farming family is angry an electric fence used to contain cattle has been anonymously dismantled almost daily for the past couple of weeks.
Keeping busy is the secret to a healthy life and happy marriage, Wanaka couple Bill and Marjorie Durry say.
While most of us are aware of the good work done by the Dunedin-based National Poisons Centre, another Dunedin service carries out its vital function almost anonymously. It's the National Apostrophe Centre (NAC) which is housed in the English department at the University of Otago.
The ''jewel'' of Wanaka - Pembroke Park - should remain ''sacrosanct'' for future generations of residents, one of the objectors to proposed car parking on the reserve says.
A portable pool costing a fraction of the price of a permanent one is being considered as an interim solution for a learn-to-swim facility in Wanaka, and could be operating within the next few months.
A long-running dispute over encroachment of a public walking track on to private land is almost resolved.
From reading and reviewing books to rescuing hundreds of homeless children, a group of Wanaka women has achieved a great deal more than they set out to when they formed a book club 12 years ago. The Wanaka-based Arusha Orphans' Charitable Trust was founded by
By the time thousands of Challenge Wanaka competitors begin their exercise in extreme endurance this morning, Wanaka GP Andrew McLeod (53, pictured above) will have already swum the equivalent of 152 lengths of Moana Pool and biked the equivalent distance in kilometres from Dunedin to Christchurch.
A contentious proposal to convert part of Pembroke Park in Wanaka into car parking will come before the Wanaka Community Board again next week.
Gavin Mason surprised a lot of people with his efforts in the Coast to Coast two years ago but, really, they should have seen him coming.
A misunderstanding nearly led to a full-scale search and rescue operation being launched yesterday after two 61-year-old Hamilton men were reported overdue from a tramping trip on the Motatapu Track.
Boil-water notices were lifted from Glendhu Bay and Arrowtown yesterday.
Complaints about conflict between lake users at Wanaka's Penrith Beach have prompted the installation of a 5-knot speed limit buoy to remind boaties to keep their speed down near the shoreline.
A flood is again heading towards Lake Wanaka - not a surplus of water, but a deluge of triathletes arriving for Saturday's Challenge Wanaka endurance race.
Dangerously high flows in the Clutha River from recent heavy rainfall have forced the postponement of this week's inaugural Wild Descent kayak adventure race.
