Mark Price

Thirty-two large Douglas fir trees at the Glendhu Bay camping ground, west of Wanaka, are being felled this week for safety reasons.

Wanaka residents protesting proposed changes to the town's library claim the member of the team who reviewed library services does not have appropriate qualifications for the job.

The father of air force Flight Lieutenant Dan Pezaro - cleared on Tuesday of wrong-doing in a helicopter crash north of Wellington that claimed three lives on Anzac Day 2010 - said yesterday he was relieved.

For six nights this week, guests of Stuart Landsborough's Puzzling World in Wanaka can expect to encounter treachery and madness.

The four crew members of the fishing trawler that sank off the South Westland coast early yesterday have a young Wanaka hunter in a Hilux, quick-acting locals, and a nearby fishing boat to thank for being rescued.

Central Otago people will get the chance to see how others see them at the Southern Lakes Festival of Colour next week.

Aspiring investigative journalists need look no further than their nearest local authority to find corrupt practices.

Wanaka resident Lowell Croft is taking on the Queenstown Lakes District Council again in a fight he thought he had won 14 years ago.

The ''sold out'' signs have gone up on more than a dozen of the Wanaka events in the Southern Lakes Festival of Colour, due to begin on Tuesday.

The world's biggest school bus is about to become homeless after being a feature of the Cardrona Valley, near Wanaka, for about 10 years.

The standard of Queenstown Lakes district library services will be affected by the Queenstown Lakes District Council's proposed staff restructuring, according to the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (Lianza).

Supermarket shoppers searching for plastic-wrapped vegetables on polystyrene trays could be out of luck in future.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is being accused of miscounting its librarians in the draft consultation document outlining how the council might restructure.

Close to 150 people took to the streets of Wanaka yesterday in an impromptu protest march to the offices of the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

Wearing a helmet may have saved the life of a climber who fell 140m on a rocky peak near Mt Awful, yesterday, in Mt Aspiring National Park.

Two reports have emerged this morning of an unidentified flying object over the west of the South Island yesterday afternoon.

Four New Zealand climbers, including Ben Dare (29), of Queenstown, are preparing to tackle a remote, unclimbed peak in the Himalayas.