Slowly but surely progress is being made on eradicating the lakeweed lagarosiphon from Lake Wanaka, with about two-thirds of the lake now clear of the invasive weed.
After more than a week a section of Lakeside Rd in Wanaka blocked by a landslip from a nearby development site was finally cleared and partially reopened to traffic yesterday afternoon.
A crackdown on drink-driving in and around Wanaka seems to be working but the police say there is still more work to do to stop motorists getting behind the wheel drunk.
More than $380,000 in funding from the Government to help boost water quality in the Upper Clutha has been confirmed, a month after it was first announced.
No immediate measures will be taken to stop the potential spread of lake snow now scientists have found a genetic link between the organism in several South Island lakes and a lake overseas.
There will be a full investigation into the cause of a landslip which has been blocking a Wanaka road for more than four days but for now the priority is to remove the slip.
It is hard to separate Wanaka’s Wells brothers from freeskiing in New Zealand. Tim Miller talked to the brothers and their father/coach Bruce about how they’re tracking, with the Winter Olympics just five months away.
It will all come down to the final and deciding game of the transtasman ice hockey series after the Australians found a way to pay the New Zealanders back for their first-game loss.