The small but crucial commercial fishing industry at Haast faces uncertainty, following a proposal to establish 11 traditional Maori fishing reserves in South Westland, doubling the total number already created for the whole country.
West Coasters love wandering along the area's rugged beaches looking for interesting stones - even pieces of prized greenstone.
A stock truck rolled on State Highway 8A at sandy Point, near Luggate, yesterday, killing 40 newly-weaned lambs.
A second Wanaka gravel supplier has been limited to a five-year consent period for its operations in the Cardrona River bed because of increasing tensions between rural and residential activities on the town's outskirts.
The arts of sculpture and wine-making combine at Rippon Vineyard from tomorrow until May 3 with the opening of a large-scale public installation in the vineyard's grounds.
Wanaka ratepayers are facing a $21.5 million question: should proposed new sports facilities include a swimming pool and where should the facilities go?
No compelling social or economic case has been found to retain the Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park in its town centre location and any further council investment in Wanaka camps should be made first at Glendhu Bay, a Queenstown Lakes District Council report says.
Naseby's 102-year-old Sacred Heart Church was sold yesterday for an undisclosed price, although it was above its $138,000 government valuation.
Matt Henderson, of Wanaka, smashed Otago swimming's oldest record at the Canterbury championships last Saturday and will be going for gold again this weekend at the Otago championships.
Mark Williams, of Queenstown, won the inaugural two-stage mountain-bike race at the Mavora Lakes last weekend.
The Cromwell Community Board has slashed the ward's forecast 54% rates increase for 2009-10 to 34% but members are not happy and want more cuts.
The Cromwell Community Board yesterday took to its long-term community plan and associated 10-year budget yesterday with red pens in a concerted attempt to reduce a budgeted 54.3% ($1.29 million) rates increase for the ward in the financial year beginning June 30.
Police reported a quiet weekend in Wanaka, with just two arrests and one incident of unexplained nudity recorded in the incidents book.
The Forest Range Station, in the Lindis Valley, consists of five properties run by the Emmerson family - Forest Range, Bargour, Breast Hill, Tomich and Hawea, covering 19,000ha.
Jack and Annie are not your typical pampered pets or snooty pooches.
Waita River's coastal tides have ruled Barbara McAlpine's life for two decades but the West Coast whitebaiting identity has called time on her sojourn by the sea.
Dunedin swimmer Cameron McMahon loves long-distance freestyle events and is champing at the bit for a quick start for his family team in the Challenge Wanaka long-distance triathlon today.
Home-town athletes loom as major contenders in Wanaka's big short-race triathlon today.
Challenge Wanaka's defending champions, Marc Pschebizin, of Germany, and Gina Ferguson, of Christchurch, are hoping to repeat their record-breaking performances of last year when they cross the finish line today.
Out on Lake Wanaka is where Lake Hawea sailor Ken Urquhart (53) performs his best.
