After several heavy rainfalls last week, Lake Wānaka reached its first flood level alert of 279.4m at 5am Sunday but had dropped to 279.1m by noon yesterday.
After a quiet Labour Weekend on the roads, Wanaka police were "straight back into it" the next week, attending three car crashes on the Crown Range Rd.
The economic climate might be gloomy, but Wanaka Business Chamber general manager Glenn Peat is urging members to keep believing something good is just around the corner.
Journalist Paddy Gower could have told many a sad story about the personal costs of telling the news in his session at last week’s Queenstown Writers Festival.
Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Paul Goldsmith was delighted to find five flakes of gold while prospecting in the Cardrona River near Wanaka yesterday, but it was not enough to satisfy his...