The group behind plans for a $220 million Haast-Hollyford toll road in South Westland will spell out their proposal to the local authorities involved at a meeting in Greymouth this afternoon.
Wanaka businessman Bob Robertson claims he is being stymied over a $250 million plan to grow and export kiwifruit to China.
Only 35,000 were made, only a handful were right-hand-drive and only one is known to be in New Zealand.
The two people airlifted to Dunedin Hospital after their car was involved in a head-on crash on State Highway 6 near Makarora on Tuesday evening were tourists - a 57-year-old man from Denmark and a 59-year-old woman from Hong Kong.
New Zealand's only snowmobile touring operation has been shut down.
A group intent on making Wanaka independent of the Queenstown Lakes District Council has changed tack for the moment.
The Environment Court will begin a two-day hearing of a Hawea Flat land dispute in the Queenstown Court on March 24.
A Wanaka man is floating the idea of forming a squadron of vintage helicopters.
New taxiways are being constructed at Wanaka Airport from a material not previously used at a New Zealand airport.
Wanaka police are seeking volunteers to join a new community patrol.
A brother and sister combination, born and bred in Otago but now living in Canterbury, took four of the nine top honours at the National Finals Rodeo, held in Wanaka at the weekend.
A Wanaka woman has unveiled plans for a whisky distillery in the Cardrona Valley.
The idea that the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society can, through the Environment Court, halt agricultural work on privately owned land rankles with retired Roxburgh farmer and Otago regional councillor Gerry Eckhoff.
Some of the more than 60 dogs entered in the popular Jack Russell (and variations of the breed) race at the 77th Wanaka A&P Show on Saturday scamper after Pat McCarthy as he sets a trail with a dead hare.
Another fine day, another record crowd; it must be the Wanaka A&P Show.
Two sheep on the lam caused a brief moment of excitement in Wanaka yesterday morning.
Thirty years ago, the Labour government of the day sent groups of scientists off on a mission. They were asked to find the parts of the landscape that still reflected the way New Zealand was before people began making changes. One of the Recommended Areas for Protection (RAPs) they came up with was a 590ha area of land above the Clutha River at South Hawea Flat, near Wanaka. Last month that RAP went under the plough. Mark Price reports.
Cardrona's Snow Park is getting a make-over designed to appeal to amateur drivers who fancy tackling roads caked with ice and snow.
A trifecta of public events are expected to make this weekend one of the busiest of the year for Wanaka.
The number of crashes on Otago roads involving overseas licence holders is on the way down.
