On Tuesday Central Otago WasteBusters will hold a special general meeting in Alexandra to consider the potential takeover of its operations by Wanaka Wastebusters. Mark Price asked Wanaka Wastebusters general manager Sue Coutts and communications manager Gina Dempster how they managed to make a buck from recyclables when others struggle.
The day 20-year-old American student Allison ''Ally'' Willen died - Anzac Day - she was making her way, alone, through flood water covering a section of the Young Valley walking track.
The ''accelerated'' loss of Upper Clutha ''basin-floor dryland'' is a matter the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society believed the Queenstown Lakes District Council should address in its 10-year plan.
While Wanaka organisations were largely quiet on the Queenstown convention centre idea, they had plenty to say about their own projects.
The Cardrona Valley Residents and Ratepayers Society is requesting ''an allocation of funds'' from the council to buy land for ''public space''.
Two-thirds of submitters to the Queenstown Lakes District Council's 10-year plan sent the message they think a $11.8 million swimming pool should be built in Wanaka now rather than later.
Three days of snow have given the Queenstown Lakes district's skifields an early shot in the arm.
The new owner of the Cardrona Valley's Rhythm and Alps music festival, Alex Turnbull, has a plan to get the New Year's Eve event back on an even keel.
An elderly Scottish couple who appear to have lost a historic, 270-year-old tartan ''plaid'' say they are ''anxious'' to find it.
With heavy rain falling in the headwaters, Lakes Wanaka and Wakatipu have been rising this week, although they are still short of flood danger levels.
Some had to be chipped out of the ice, but most of the 800 tea bags buried on Mt Cardrona near Wanaka during the summer have been recovered.
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Anti-1080 campaigner Carol Sawyer believes the safety of the little-known and rare Roys Peak gecko will be put at risk by TBFree New Zealand's poisoning programme later this month.
A Czech Republic tourist who decided not to cross an ''ugly'' mountain stream walked out of the bush near the Haast Pass yesterday morning with nothing more than wet feet.
Aerial drops of 1080 poison around Wanaka set to begin after next Friday will be the first test of the resolve of the anonymous person who threatened to contaminate infant formula with the poison.
Almost all 80 places in Wanaka's first Youth and Adults in the Music Industry (Yami) summit have been taken with a ''whoosh and a bang'', according to organiser Lynne Christie.
Yesterday's wet weather caused difficulties for motorists travelling between Otago and the West Coast.
One of Lake Wanaka's top, free tourist attractions has left for the winter.
Lake Wanaka boat users, both private and commercial, could well have a new jetty available to them by next summer.
Wanaka Airport manager Ralph Fegan has every confidence Nasa will be back.
