Mark Price

The first week of the new year in Wanaka has seen 16 arrests by police, with alcohol consumption being the main factor in 90% of cases.

A cycle tourist the Otago Daily Times spoke to on his way south past Lake Hawea yesterday thought he might have had better luck back home in the German winter.

A Wanaka holiday park owner yesterday blasted the Queenstown Lakes District Council over the time it took to fix a felled signpost.

Central Otago pinot noir winegrowers are lending colleagues in the Burgundy region of France a hand to lobby the New Zealand Government.

Some regard Ralph Watson as Auckland's answer to Southland's Burt Munro.

Taking your family on holiday can have its stresses.

The two-day Rhythm and Alps music festival, due to start in the Cardrona Valley today, has sold out.

At Labour Weekend, management of the Queenstown Lakes District Council holiday parks was taken over by a newly formed private company called Council Camps Revitalised Ltd. The company consists of two couples with long histories in the camping ground business and full of ideas about how to improve the holiday experience of those who choose to camp. On Boxing Day, Mark Price took the pulse of one of the camps - the Wanaka Lake View Holiday Park - as it began to fill up for New Year.

When the holidaymakers begin flooding into the Upper Clutha, Martin Galley and Robyn Agnew, of Albert Town, uncover their little retro caravan and head for the hills - about 2km away.

Throughout Otago, people with a love of food and fresh produce are turning out amazing products. For some it is just a hobby, for others it has turned into their livelihood. Mark Price finds out their story.

Growing vegetables or fruit in your own backyard has made a comeback. Mark Price learns how it's done.

Camping grounds in Wanaka hosted some families yesterday who were not following their traditional Christmas pattern.

The two-day Rhythm and Alps music festival in the Cardrona Valley is expected to add to the workload of police this New Year.

Talk of a new wharf on Lake Wanaka extending out into the lake from the town's main street, Helwick St, is causing waves with the main commercial user of the town's existing wharf.

Former chief executive of the Vincent hospital board Marius Willemsen (85) and his wife Gerda (82) celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary at Elmslie House, in Wanaka, today.

A Queenstown Lakes Districts Council camping ground manager, Erna Spijkerbosch, says it's important Queenstown ''refreshes'' what it offers tourists, and plans for a hot pool complex may fit the bill.