Mark Price

The Wanaka Chamber of Commerce wants to know why so few of the town's businesses have connected to ultra-fast broadband.

The level of Lake Hawea is rising slowly again after dropping to near its minimum operating level 10 days ago.

Public access negotiations between the Queenstown Lakes District Council and Devon Dairy Farms Ltd, near Hawea Flat, appear to be nearing completion.

''Ok, everyone. We've got a window.''

Can bird smells be used to turn rats, cats, stoats, ferrets, possums and hedgehogs off the idea of hunting native birds?

''OK, everyone. We've got a window.''

Hopes the average rates rise to pay for Wanaka's new $11.8million swimming pool might be little more than $100 per year appear to have evaporated.

Red carpet and Champagne will be absent from the first New Zealand public screening of the new Everest movie.

Deer farmers will pay tribute today to those who pioneered their industry, including the 50 or more killed in the process.

The deer farming industry paid tribute to its pioneers yesterday with a plaque unveiling ceremony at Wanaka Airport.

The late Jim Kane might well have jumped from helicopters and wrestled deer to the ground in the mountains of Fiordland, but he was no ''cowboy''.

Google co-founder Larry Page has come and gone from Wanaka without, it seems, leaving a trace.

In a week when the best of the world's skiers and snowboarders are bringing a blizzard of ''big air'' spectacles to southern skifields during the Winter Games, Wanaka bureau chief Mark Price slipped off quietly for what is known in some quarters as a ''soft snow'' experience.

What do you do when you have finished running more than 5500km across the United States in 114 days?

While Australian actor Sam Worthington sips Champagne on the red carpet in Venice next month, the mountaineer he portrays in the new movie Everest will be in Nepal, huddled in a tent at the foot of the world's eighth highest mountain.