Guy Williams

Wakatipu High School has begun the year with a cluster of temporary buildings on its playing fields, while a major extension of its main building continues.

Wet roads from persistent rain in the Queenstown Lakes area may have contributed to three crashes that left four people injured, one seriously, and caused long delays for holiday traffic yesterday.

The Friends of Lake Hayes are confident they finally have a blueprint for restoring the lake’s water to a healthy, swimmable state, its chairman says.

A drilling project beneath Queenstown’s CBD has been extended by up to seven weeks after the contractor struck wood.

Work has started on a $1.5million car park and lookout close to the rockfall-prone Bennetts Bluff lookout on the Glenorchy-Queenstown road.

A dozen conservation groups in Otago and Southland have received nearly $800,000 in grants from the Department of Conservation’s (Doc) Community Fund.