The Upper Clutha A&P Society has secured the backing of the Wanaka Community Board in its bid for a new 33-year lease over 930sq m of Wanaka recreation reserve land.
One rafting? Bungy jumping? Zip line? Then perhaps it's time for via ferrata. The World War I innovation in Italian mountaineering could be coming to a gorge near Wanaka.
The Upper Clutha A&P Society's plans for a major extension to its building in Wanaka could be delayed a year, depending on which option the Wanaka Community Board adopts at its meeting today over leasing land to the society.
''Quite an accolade.''
The ''wheeler and dealer'' behind Wanaka's Transport and Toy Museum, Gerald Freeman Rhodes, died at his Christchurch home on Thursday, aged 78.
The Crown Range and Cardrona Valley Rds between Wanaka and Queenstown can be a testing place for drivers unfamiliar with ice and snow. This week, Otago Daily Times Wanaka bureau chief Mark Price set out with Constable Greg Nolet, of Wanaka, to find five driving hazards along the high-altitude road. It did not take long before he was back, with a list of about 35.
Finding the $3 million to pay for the building of a new community house in Wanaka seems unlikely to be a problem.
A major sewerage system expense is looming for Lake Hawea residents.
A dairy farming couple who applied for retrospective resource consent after clearing native vegetation alongside the Hawea River have had it granted, but with a long list of conditions.
The group proposing to build a ''community house'' in Wanaka has finally put its plans before the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Hunters tempted to ''farm'' wild deer or pigs before hunting competitions are likely to be out of luck at the Upper Clutha Deerstalkers Association competition later this month.
Driving home with your head out the window does not cut the mustard, police are telling drivers after two Wanaka incidents.
It might be made of canvas and it might be a comfortable, low-cost housing solution, but a yurt still needs building consent and, quite possibly, resource consent.
Management of the Treble Cone Skifield believes it has dodged a bullet over damage done to the field in the 5.8 magnitude earthquake three months ago.
Some of the ''black spots'' in Otago's cellphone network, particularly along major tourist routes, might soon disappear.
Southern rodeo clubs are defending their record on animal welfare in the face of a campaign to have rodeos banned.
New Zealand is collecting tens of thousands of dollars in fines from overseas tourists carrying apples into Queenstown Airport.
Tourists who fall off their bikes are being used to help promote Otago's bid to be rid of cellphone black spots.
It might be going a little far to describe Wayne and Ann Carran as the guardian angels of Milford road users. They would hate that anyway. But after 32 years of protecting tourists and road workers from avalanches, the Te Anau couple are calling it a day with their safety record intact. Mark Price reports.
The Southland team preparing to take part in next year's 16,000km Mongol Motor Rally will have a little bit of New Zealand competition, in the form of an Otago-Auckland team.
