Mark Price

"We'd be putting up fences, and filling in rabbit holes, and putting up tents, and filling in rabbit holes, and putting up signs and filling in rabbit holes ...''

Contrary to rumours, today's Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow has not been cancelled because of bad weather.

Just in case anyone had forgotten the biggest warbirds airshow in the southern hemisphere starts on Saturday, six racing jet aircraft flew low, slow and quietly over Wanaka's lake frontage yesterday afternoon.

A museum in a hangar at Wanaka Airport devoted to one of the German Air Force's main fighter aircraft during World War 2 will open to the public for the first time at Easter's Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow.

When Wanaka Search and Rescue chairman Paul Marshall says his organisation is going through a ''lean patch'' he does not mean it is short of volunteers.

Wanaka: Government permission to build the world's longest monorail, in Fiordland, has been delayed again.

Not only has Wanaka multisport competitor Bob McLachlan been making some rapid travel and visa arrangements this week, he has had a few in-line skating issues to resolve as well.

The smell of sewage should not be evident beyond the site of a new sludge-drying plant Fulton Hogan wants to build on the Clutha River 2km from Luggate.

The notorious Cascade Saddle route in Mt Aspiring National Park will be examined today in the hope it can be made safer for trampers and climbers.

The smell from a proposed whisky distillery in the Cardrona Valley is a concern for one of those opposing the development.

Six World War 1 replica biplanes and triplanes are now in Wanaka, being prepared for a mock battle leading up to the Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshow at Easter.

Wanaka's Mt Aspiring College is setting out to get rid of all 37 of its rubbish bins by later this year.

It was ''yes'' to a $55.5 million convention centre for Queenstown, ''yes'' to a $12.3 million sports facility for Wanaka and ''yes'' to a $2.1 million upgrade of Wanaka's swimming pool at yesterday's meeting of the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

They met when she was a marching girl and he was a piper.

It had started out so well.

A night of ''binge drinking'' before a mountain biking trip led to the the death of Dunedin furniture remover Philip Ross Bergman (27), according to Otago-Southland Coroner David Crerar.