Farmers and rural communities should consider taking a DIY approach to getting ultra-fast broadband to their homes and businesses, according to Telecommunications Users' Association of New Zealand chief executive Paul Brislen.
The Harvard plane engine lying in a mountain stream near Wanaka could end up in the Wanaka Warbirds and Wheels Museum.
Cromwell tow truck operators have added their voices to a call for cellphone services along the Lindis Pass Alpine Highway between Tarras and Omarama.
More Chinese tourists on snowboards in search of ''brag value'' is being held up as a prospect for the Lake Wanaka region this winter.
Solar and wood-fired energy systems on a grand scale are being investigated for the Frankton Flats area of Queenstown.
What are believed to be the first prosecutions over Central Otago's rabbit problem are set to go to court on Tuesday.
The idea of turning Central Otago's wilding conifer problem into an energy solution appears to be uneconomic.
Wanaka library manager Sue Gwilliam is understood to be one of those out of a job as the result of a Queenstown Lakes District Council staff restructuring.
When your car slides into a ditch on the Lindis Pass, who do you call? The answer is no-one, simply because the pass is in the middle of a 57km cellphone ''black hole''. Mark Price reports on the conundrum of a cellphone network designed for profit, rather than road safety.
Driving to the movies on a 1930s winter night was not all about wrapping up in fur coats and feathers.
An application to develop 35 residential lots on 300ha of farmland between Wanaka Airport and the Clutha River was described as a ''test case'', at a Queenstown Lakes District Council resource consent hearing in Wanaka yesterday.
The developers of a new subdivision near Wanaka Airport seem to have been cleared for takeoff as far as the Wanaka Airport Management Committee is concerned.
Hopes irrigation water from the Clutha River would begin flowing to 6000ha of land in the Tarras area by October have receded by a month.
The weather has thrown potential buyers of the Cardrona Alpine Resort a nice little bonus.
The Upper Clutha Environmental Society will not be cowed by what it describes as a developer's ''hollow threat'' to use its land for dairying if it does not get approval for housing.
Residents have come out swinging over changes to the way Wanaka's library operates.
A group of Wanaka curlers are rubbing their hands with glee as the frosts begin to bite.
The potential to use more Central Otago and Lakes District trees for heating needs to be explored in greater depth according to Queenstown Lakes District Council forester Briana Pringle.
They may be volunteers, and they may have had to fly and drive equipment from as far away as Invercargill, but the firefighters who attended yesterday's Shotover St blaze earned high praise from Fire Service Central and North Otago area manager
Six Kiwis, including Wanaka helicopter pilot Peter Garden, are battling the elements in the Falkland Islands and South Georgia as they kill rats in an aerial poisoning operation. As Mark Price writes, they are also keeping a wary eye on the simmering tensions between Argentina and Britain over the disputed islands.
