Mark Price

Wanaka swimmers are being given another chance to push for an aquatic centre to be included in stage one of the town's proposed new $16 million sports complex.

Home building in the Queenstown Lakes District is on the rise, and those in the industry are ''cautiously optimistic'' the trend will continue.

The Lake Hawea man who developed the what he branded the ''Slammertool'' is taking it to what he calls the hand tool equivalent of the Olympics.

Southern tourism company Real Journeys has ventured on to unfamiliar trails with its purchase of Cardrona Alpine Resort. ODT Wanaka bureau chief Mark Price asks chief executive Richard Lauder why the company got into the ski business.

When Lake Wanaka's Etchells fleet goes head-to-head this autumn sailing season, two of their number will have paraplegic sailors on board.

A survey of 72 older people in the Upper Clutha has found loneliness and money worries are their biggest issues.

Vineyard owners are hoping the risk of another summer frost will recede with the high pressure system approaching the country.

The sun is shining at last and accommodation providers in Wanaka are starting to make hay.

An Albert Town woman whose partner died in June says Vodafone made a difficult time just that little bit more difficult when she came to ''terminate'' her late partner's phone contract.

Wanaka entrepreneur Sam Lee has set a new crowd-funding target for his proposed ''meMINI'' wearable video camera.

Multisport athletes will have a difficult choice to make in February 2015 - Challenge Wanaka or Coast to Coast.

Wanted: One ''champion'' to establish a Wanaka museum.

How to minimise light pollution dominated discussion at a meeting of the Lake Hawea Community Association at the weekend.

''My advice to anyone would be to give up poetry and get a regular job''.

Temuka artist Bronwyn Shimmin won the $5000 Aspiring Art prize at a gala evening in Wanaka last night.

Plans have been revived for a multimillion-dollar development overlooking Roys Bay, Lake Wanaka.

On a normal Wanaka day, Telecom's mobile phone system handles 25,000 text messages.