Brood gets in on toy duck action
Brood gets in on toy duck action
When the Wanaka Rotary Club tipped 1500 plastic ducks into Bullock Creek yesterday morning, little did anyone realise a live duck and her ducklings would steal the show.
Mark Price
Perfect Woman film plan
Perfect Woman film plan
A movie using Wanaka's Perfect Woman competition as a backdrop is under development, a script already having been completed by 2012 Arts Foundation Laureate Fiona Samuels.
Intriguing new sculptures for Puzzling World
Intriguing new sculptures for Puzzling World
Those who enjoy being amused, bemused and confused by visual trickery will have a whole new world to explore from December 1.
Perfect woman has many talents
Perfect woman has many talents
For the first time in the 10-year history of Wanaka's Perfect Woman contest, contestants had to skin a newborn lamb. And the 10 finalists did it yesterday without batting an eyelid.
Kayaking: Four-day race 'good outing'
Kayaking: Four-day race 'good outing'
The organiser of a new 260km, four-day kayak race down the Clutha River from Lake Wanaka to the sea describes it as "a good outing".
Rescue leader learnt from experience
Rescue leader learnt from experience
Among those who searched the Makarora River for missing jet-boater Murray Rivers on Sunday night was Lake Hawea marine search and rescue team leader John Haggitt.
Pipeline idea finds favour
Pipeline idea finds favour
The Cardrona Residents' and Ratepayers' Association approves of the idea of piping the town's waste water to Wanaka for treatment - but wants the answer to one major question: how much would it cost?
Most in favour of reducing speed limits
Most in favour of reducing speed limits
The Queenstown Lakes District Council seems to have stumbled on a way to keep more ratepayers happy.
Call for action on waste water
Call for action on waste water
Less talk, more action is the message Cardrona Hotel manager Peter Byrne has for the Queenstown Lakes District Council over the township's waste water problems.
Not all my dog: owner
Not all my dog: owner
The owner of Gary, the Staffordshire bull terrier put down for killing two lambs near Albert Town, says his dog is being unfairly accused of other sheep attacks. Wanaka builder Stew Roberts says his...
Not all my dog: owner
Not all my dog: owner
The owner of Gary, the Staffordshire bull terrier put down for killing two lambs near Albert Town, says his dog is being unfairly accused of other sheep attacks. Wanaka builder Stew Roberts says his...
Banned over $60,000 debt
Banned over $60,000 debt
Three commercial fishers who owe the Westland District Council almost $60,000 have been banned from using the Jackson Bay wharf, near Haast.
Outbreak adds urgency to wastewater debate
Outbreak adds urgency to wastewater debate
Health and water authorities believe the norovirus outbreak in the Cardrona Valley has added urgency to the debate over how to dispose of the township's wastewater, the suggestion being raised of piping it to Wanaka.
Death caused by drowning: coroner
Death caused by drowning: coroner
Otago Southland Coroner David Crerar has found Trevor Lloyd Hawke (70), of Wanaka, died as a result of drowning, on November 17, 2011.
Questions raised over sports centre capacity
Questions raised over sports centre capacity
It will be another three years before work on a new sports and events centre at Wanaka is likely to begin, but already questions are being asked about whether it will be big enough, and how it might be expanded.
Australians affected by virus
Australians affected by virus
Between 15 and 20 Australians who came to ski in the South in August and September went home with a norovirus they may have picked up in Cardrona township.
Stabilising SH6 slip could cost more than $400,000
Stabilising SH6 slip could cost more than $400,000
Stabilising the slip on State Highway 6 between Lake Hawea and Haast, south of Makarora, will cost between $300,000 and $400,000, but possibly more.
Prosecution expected over rabbit programmes
Prosecution expected over rabbit programmes
Two Upper Clutha landowners are staring down the barrel of prosecution by the Otago Regional Council for not controlling rabbit numbers.
QLDC says plan too reactive
QLDC says plan too reactive
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is opposed to the Otago Regional Council's plan change 6A designed to maintain and improve the quality of water in the province's waterways.
Plan unworkable, farmers claim
Plan unworkable, farmers claim
High-country farmers believe many of the measures in the Otago Regional Council's proposed plan change 6A designed to maintain and improve water quality will be unworkable in their farming environments.