Mark Price

Wanaka Agricultural Contracting Ltd owner Richard Woodhead, shows off some of his bumper crop of triticale baled at Mt Barker, Wanaka, this week.

Plans by the Otago Regional Council to limit the amount of water that can be taken from the Lindis River has drawn more support than opposition.

Wanaka's sole parking/animal control officer Ryan Holloway has resigned after just a year, citing the abuse he got as part of the reason.

All but one of the landowners in the path of a proposed 25km Cardrona Valley cycleway have now given their approval in principle to the idea.

Three hundred people have stumped up $315 each to attend next Thursday's ''Gathering of Geezers'' charity dinner at Wanaka's Warbirds and Wheels Museum.

A giant hot-air blower designed to lay a warm blanket of air over crops during frosty weather is being trialled near Mt Pisa, north of Cromwell.

It is not often firefighters get to choose when and where they fight a fire.

The last time Lake Wanaka flooded the town's CBD, in 1999, an El Nino weather pattern had earlier brought a major drought to Otago.

With 25 new toilets and 25 new showers available, campers at the Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park are unlikely to be queuing much in the summer of 2016-17, and beyond.

A Cromwell laundry business put in long hours over Labour Weekend after coming to the rescue of Wanaka hotels, motels and rest homes hit by the closure of the town's only commercial laundry.

Three young men in camouflage clothing and carrying firearms may hold the key to identifying who damaged a hut on the Pisa Range, near Cardrona.

The temperature in every room is 20degC all day, all night and all year.

A year out from the next local body elections, Queenstown Lakes District deputy mayor Lyal Cocks says he plans to run for the top job - which would make him probably Queenstown's first mayor domiciled in Wanaka. Otago Daily Times Wanaka bureau chief Mark Price put a series of questions to Mr Cocks this week.

Pests along the entire 30km of the West Matukituki River catchment, near Wanaka, are to be targeted in a concerted control programme.

The availability of cheaper sections in Wanaka is drying up rapidly.

Have someone pour baked beans over your head while sitting in a bathtub in the middle of your town.