Kerrie Waterworth

​The price and availability of Wanaka’s shared housing market is one of the reasons why Otago Polytechnic outdoor and adventure education is moving its base from Cromwell to Wanaka in 2020.

An area within Cardrona Alpine Resort has been declared by DOC as a nationally significant site for alpine lizards following the discovery it had one of the highest diversities of lizards known on the NZ mainland.

The kea, the world’s only alpine parrot is thriving in some parts of the South Island but disappearing from other areas. What are the prospects for the endangered species?

A pair of French tourists arrived Wanaka's Roys Peak car park at 3am in the hope of ''being alone'' on the hike, but they found 40 others on the summit at sunrise.