Lake Hawea adventurer Mark Sedon (48) this week embarked on a 2000km Antarctic expedition involving 70 days of kite-skiing and climbing across a crevasse-cut route, up the south face of 2020m-high The Spectre, to Scott Glacier.
The QLDC has hit back at claims it is not interpreting the amended RMA correctly and says it can no longer publicly notify rural residential subdivisions because "it is now the law".
Motorised craft will be prohibited on the river if the Queenstown Lakes District council adopts the current proposed district plan, a hearing has been.
New Zealand's winning form at the World Waterfowl Calling Championships in the United States over the weekend has been compared to that of the All Blacks.
A proposal to allow boats to travel at a higher speed on the Clutha River between the Lake Wanaka outlet and the first rapid, about 2km downstream, have been overwhelmingly opposed.
Records were not broken but anglers described the fishing and conditions on Lake Hawea during the annual two-day Lake Hawea Hotel fishing tournament as "fantastic".
Organisers say all books were selling well but children's books were the big favourite on the first day of the 26th Wanaka Rotary Book Sale yesterday in the Lake Wanaka centre.
Public health advocate Prof Phillipa Howden-Chapman is speaking in Wanaka tonight and is interested in learning what people think the big housing issues in the town are.
Organisers of next year’s 30th anniversary Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow are hoping to have the biggest peacetime formation flypast of the T6 Harvard aircraft outside North America.
The dream of former Otago regional councillor Maggie Lawton to have an alpine lakes research and education centre built on the former Fish & Game Otago trout hatchery in Wanaka could...
Fears are mounting outstanding natural landscapes and visual amenity landscapes across the Queenstown Lakes district will no longer be safeguarded from rural residential subdivisions.
Wanaka entrepreneurship was given a boost last week when the winner of the inaugural scholarship for entrepreneurs was announced.
Mystery still surrounds the whereabouts of the plane flown by American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart but her motor car will be on display at the 2018 Warbirds over Wanaka international airshow.
Only two breeding pairs of grebes have fledged their chicks so far this year on the artificial nests at the Lake Wanaka marina and there are concerns it may be due to a lack of food.
Hunters, hikers and anglers are being warned not to enter the east and west branches of the Matukituki Valley for the next few days during a Department of Conservation aerial 1080 operation, which...
The Otago Regional Council has issued a warning for people and dogs to avoid the Cardrona River following the appearance of a potentially toxic algae in the water.
Operation Restraint caught a few unsuspecting Wanaka motorists yesterday when police carried out traffic checks around the centre of town.
Aurora Energy has apologised to customers affected by an unplanned power outage in Wanaka on Wednesday night.
Our obsession with cookery shows and celebrity chefs has given us an appetite for confrontation in the kitchen and extreme or bizarre foods, but one Wanaka chef is hoping to change all that.
It took a week of preparation but it was worth it for Harcourts Property Management when its sponsored rubber duck ''Louie'' came first in Rotary Club of Wanaka's inaugural corporate duck race on Saturday.
