Wanaka ball boy Josh Roberts (10) was elevated to the status of umpire during an exhibition tennis match yesterday to celebrate his local club's centenary and went on to prove he was indeed on the ball.
Wanaka will host 130 of New Zealand's best volunteers and many of the country's mayors this weekend for the 2007 TrustPower National Community Awards.
Geoff Taylor, of Belex Wools, has been quietly beavering away in a tin shed near the Clutha River at Luggate for more than a decade, producing thousands on thousands of slivers of coloured wool for spinners, weavers and wool shops.
A paper road through Corbridge Farm could be used for general public access to Rekos Point conservation area on the Clutha River should Stevensons Rd landowners fail to reach an access agreement with the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
A new conservation park has been proposed for near Lake Hawea, providing high country access links from the Mt Aspiring National Park to the Ahuriri Conservation Park near Omarama.
Legal advice will be sought over the status of a privately operated Wanaka landfill as council officers dig deep into paperwork stretching back more than 20 years to resolve a stoush over resource consent compliance issues and ownership.
Legal advice will be sought over the status of a privately operated Wanaka landfill as council officers dig deep into paperwork stretching back more than 20 years to resolve a stoush over resource consent compliance issues and ownership.
Talk of a recession and its predicted effect on the property market does not wash with Wanaka's real estate institute spokesman, Ross Rainsford, who said yesterday he was seeing little change in demand from purchasers.
Visitors to Wanaka will have to wait to see if shops will be open for business tomorrow and on Sunday.
Multisport adventure race came down to the wire in the open women's and men's events in Alexandra yesterday, with the second-placed challengers opening the throttle and rattling the race leaders.
Strong winds and hot temperatures have been dogging Team 503 of Wanaka but with one day to go in the three-day event, the members are already thinking about next time.
Dunedin multisporter Dougal Allan (22) goes into the third and final day of the Goldrush Multisport race around Central Otago today hoping he can hold on to his lead.
Canadian country music star Shania Twain eclipsed Prime Minister Helen Clark and Department of Conservation officials yesterday at a rare public appearance for the official opening of the new Motatapu Track and the Macetown Restoration Project.
The body of Melbourne climber Alan Leslie Beck (49) was found by a search and rescue team yesterday, 15 metres under an ice slab on Mt Aspiring.
There are only slim hopes that missing climber Alan Beck (49), a New Zealander living in Melbourne, has survived conditions on Mt Aspiring but searchers would continue to give him ‘‘their best shot'', Sergeant Aaron Nicholson said yesterday.
Wanaka residents Jo Dippie and Angus Gordon are concerned a Riverbank Rd landfill that has been operating for several years without a resource consent may contain hazardous substances that could leach into Cardrona River underground aquifers.
Three intoxicated teenage boys were picked up by Wanaka police from Spencer Mall in Dunmore St at 1.20pm on Saturday and returned to their parents, after a member of the public reported concerns about their condition.
The 71st Upper Clutha A & P Show was a resounding success, with organisers estimating the best attendance figures yet.
Up to 100 people waited for an hour at the Upper Clutha A and P Show in Wanaka yesterday to see National Party leader John Key open his mouth.
It is a case of better late than never for Lake Hawea boaties, who can begin using a new jetty that was supposed to be installed before Christmas.
