Two senior Civil Aviation Authority safety investigation officers returned to Wellington from Wanaka yesterday morning after completing their inspection of the site where a helicopter crashed on the Criffel Range, near Wanaka, on Thursday.
The Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow at Easter produced a $200,000 surplus.
Three excavators are rearranging the bed of the Hawea River, near Wanaka, to create what is expected to be the country's best purpose-built whitewater course for kayakers and rafters.
The stress points in Otago and Southland after-hours health services should be revealed publicly later this month.
The victim of Sunday's fatal jetboating incident on the Makarora River, Murray (Muzza) Austin Rivers, was well-known in the Wanaka community for his generous spirit and love of life.
On any normal day, the footpath outside the Doughbin Bakery in lakeside Ardmore St, Wanaka, is an unremarkable thoroughfare, frequented mostly by tourists and locals looking for lunch, dinner or a...
Another touch of frost through Central Otago and the Waitaki Valley had vineyard managers and workers scrambling again yesterday morning.
The Ministry of Education is reviewing its security arrangements at the old Wanaka Primary School in Tenby St.
The overhead frost-fighting sprinklers were out in force this morning in the vineyards of Central Otago however temperatures were a shade warmer than on previous mornings this week.
The size of the loss Dunedin City Council-owned Delta Investments Ltd has made over its investment in its residential development at Luggate could be confirmed later this month.
The larger-than-life bronze statue of rally driver Possum Bourne that stood on a hillside overlooking the Cardrona Valley for the past eight years has been taken to the North Island.
The organisers of Wanaka's Wearable Creations are looking forward to someone else taking over where they are leaving off.
High winds created problems for firefighters called to a fire on a farm between Luggate and Tarras yesterday morning.
Herbicide leaked from spilled containers after a heavy truck carrying freight crashed on State Highway 8 near Tarras early yesterday.
Helicopter pilot Peter Garden, of Wanaka, hopes that early next year he can place another red dot on his map of the world.
From the roof of his "bunker" in Brooklyn Heights, New York, former Dunedin resident Jason Tagg watched, in the dark, as lower Manhattan Island started to go under water.
While the Youth Court granted the media permission to report proceedings involving four of the Wanaka offenders, no reporting is allowed of how other offenders were dealt with by way of family group conferences.
The owners of the Snow Park on the Pisa Range are looking for a new skifield business partner; preferably one with $50 million to spend.
Construction of 34km of new cycle tracks could begin in the Wanaka-Lake Hawea area in the next two or three years.
Jackson Bay fishers and residents are warning recreational boaties to be careful when using the settlement's boat-launching area.
