The most important question to be addressed by the Wanaka Community Board on Tuesday is: where do Wanaka people want new sports fields, a swimming pool and a camping ground?
Amy Collins, of Wanaka, is a woman on a mission - to help the troubled child soldiers of Sudan.
Top adventure racer Richard Ussher (32) cleaned up the field in the Anaconda Adventure Race at Tugun, on the Gold Coast of Australia on Sunday.
Dr Fiona Graham, whose company owns a Wanaka house deemed dangerous by the district court, has accused the Queenstown Lakes District Council of continuing an eight-year "illegal vendetta" against her in deciding to evict her 20 tenants on Monday.
Next year's Winter Games NZ could bring $50 million in direct spending to the Otago economy, games chief executive officer Arthur Klap says.
Wayne Bosley (49) is the new Mt Aspiring College principal, taking over the reins of the school he has led as acting principal for more than a year.
Fire and safety concerns have resulted in least 19 tenants of 155 Tenby St, Wanaka, being evicted from the house by the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday, after it obtained a court order accepting the building was dangerous and prohibiting the building's use as a residence.
So, the Olympic Games have begun again.
The Ministry of Education is reviewing the development costs of Wanaka's proposed $7 million primary school, which parents hope will open in 2010.
To New Zealanders of a certain era, "Lyn of Tawa" is as much Ginette McDonald as "Fred Dagg" is John Clarke.
A 47-lot subdivision at Okuru, Haast, has been approved but developer Infinity Ltd will not begin construction until at least a quarter of the sections have been sold.
Midway through the snowsports season, southern snow-field operators are happy with visitor numbers this year, despite the contracting economy.
The proposed Tarras Community Trust will meet on August 27 to elect a trust board and adopt a trust deed.
The battle of the mountain men is on.
The Matukituki Trust faces a four-day resource consent hearing this month on its application to build a house on Roys Peninsula.
Anglers and kayakers have regained access to the head of the Hawea River, on Contact Energy land, after the Lake Hawea community resolved concerns regarding motorbike "hooning" on the earth dam.
A section on the corner of Tenby and Conner Sts in Wanaka has been designated as a works depot by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has apologised to Lake Hawea residents for not giving notice that chlorine was to be added to their water supply on July 18 to address a bacterial contamination issue and biofilm build-up in some pipes.
The possum-killing poison 1080 has been pinpointed as the most likely cause of death for seven kea in the Franz Joseph and Fox Glacier area in the last year.
Snowboarders Dick Schulze loves doing things by halves - especially getting into the half-pipe and taking on athletes half his age.
