Mark Price

Ultra-fast broadband is on the way to Makarora, but is unlikely to be there in time for Christmas.

The 18m tall Santa that adorned the Queen St Farmers building and other Auckland buildings for 60 Christmases is due to take up residence in Wanaka.

A marine search and rescue building has been approved for Wanaka.

Fifty years after watching his friends plummet to their deaths on Mt Aspiring, a climber has returned to pay his respects.

It has been a busy Sunday afternoon for Coastguard Wanaka Lakes.

South Westland whitebaiter Charlie Neilson says he is prepared to go to jail rather than give up fishing his favourite river.

Details remain sketchy of the fatal crash on State Highway 8A between Tarras and Luggate on Thursday night.

The man who dreamed up the Lake Onslow pumped hydro scheme has hit back at Contact Energy’s claim the scheme could "paralyse" investment in renewable energy.

The millennium pathway will continue to be part of Wanaka’s lakefront, although it will be moved and its tiles replaced.

The expansion of Wanaka’s Mt Aspiring College has taken another step after the Ministry of Education applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council for resource consent for a new building.

A senior Department of Conservation staff member who is also a whitebaiter could be one of those who loses out under a Doc proposal to make some rivers a "refuge" for whitebait.

The Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) has undertaken not to advance its expansion plans for the next two and a-half years.

Bolt failure caused a wheel to fall off a light aircraft after it took off from Twizel in November, a report says.

Voters in the Lakes District who feel they are not getting a fair go are being given the chance to push for change.