Mark Price

A century on from the opening of the Pleasant Valley Sanatorium, some say the threat of Tb still hangs over the country.

Those trying to improve the winter air quality of Otago towns are sceptical of claims in northern media a domestic wood-burner producing no pollution might be on the horizon.

An Australian snowboarder with a memory lapse is appealing to a Wanaka woman called Cathy, or maybe Kathy, to step forward.

The avalanche dogs of the Southern Lakes region and their handlers spent yesterday dangling on 20m strops, or long-lines, beneath helicopters as they undertook a refresher course at Treble Cone skifield.

A busy year for Wanaka Search and Rescue volunteers has been underscored by police statistics released at the organisation's annual meeting this week.

A Wanaka college pupil has taken second place in a competition to find New Zealand's best adventure film for the year.

Otago conservator Marian van der Goes yesterday laid out how the Department of Conservation is intent on getting along with its high-country neighbours.

"It's like stealing one of my children."

People who might enjoy a late-evening drink along Lake Wanaka's foreshore will be out of luck if a police proposal gets the backing of the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

A team of more than 2000 athletes are spending this week running up and down the hills around Wanaka.

The Guardians of Lake Wanaka are refloating plans to install a "monitoring buoy" in the lake.

The long-standing practice of shooting ducks from jet-boats drifting down the Clutha River has been labelled "dangerous" by a Wanaka river-user.