Mark Price

Police have today released the name of the man who died in a vegetation fire on Northburn Station, near Cromwell, on Wednesday night.

A group of Wanaka residents is appealing to the Environment Court to stop the major new Northlake residential subdivision going ahead.

New arrival at Wanaka Airport Ronan Harvey (59) has quite a few things still to do on his bucket list.

Right plant, wrong location.

Mary Goodger, of Merivale Station, on the road to the Lindis Pass, jokes that rather than politicians getting a tick this month, perhaps it is her turn.

The organisers of a new swimming event in Lake Wanaka are confident they have pole position over Triathalon New Zealand in the race for dates.

There was some debate at the Makarora River Ranch yesterday morning about the origins of a few drops of water in the ranch's rain gauge.

Two members of the Wanaka alpine cliff rescue team spent the early hours of yesterday traversing the Bonar Glacier below Mt Aspiring in poor conditions as they rescued a family of three climbers.

The completion date for repairs to the Diana Falls slip on State Highway 6, the Haast Pass, has been pushed back a month.

Where are Glenorchy, Kingston, Lake Hawea, Hawea Flat, Luggate and Makarora - and Gigatown - in a new economic development strategy consultation report produced for the Queenstown Lakes District Council?

Sir Tim Wallis yesterday had the honour of adding a rhododendron to improvements being made to the entrance to Wanaka Airport.

The Ministry of Education will consult on Wanaka's education needs before the end of the year.

The location of the Wanaka community swimming pool is one of the questions going back out for public consultation.

The Wanaka Community House Trust might still have $2.8 million of fund-raising to do, but chairwoman Dame Sukhi Turner hopes a start on the building can be made next year.

More than a hundred of the country's best sled dogs have been wagging their way through a series of races at the Snow Farm on the Pisa Range near Cardrona over the past few days.

Southern Lakes deerstalkers concerned about white tail deer in the Glenorchy area, at the head of Lake Wakatipu, are being asked to volunteer to count dead animals following the Department of Conservation's drop of 1080 poison there.

Wanaka residents are in for another round of consultation over what sort of swimming pool they want.

A new economic development strategy identifies Wanaka as one of several ''opportunities'' for achieving higher tourist spending.