Marjorie Cook

Wānaka Rowing Club members are preparing a "Twizel and back" event this weekend to support Mount Aspiring College (MAC) rowers racing at the Aon Maadi Cup at Lake Ruantaniwha from March 18-23.

Tickets for the Aspiring Conversations Festival in April have been flying out the door, forcing the organisers to change the venue size for one of the more popular shows, Adventures with Emilie....

No intrepid Instagrammers were harmed during the National Canyon Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX) at Makarora and Haast Pass last Friday. 

Allan Harvey has missed maybe all of four days in the the two and a-half years he has been a member of the Wānaka Community Workshop. During those years, he and his friends have knocked out heaps of...

Juan Rodriguez arrived in New Zealand 10 years ago from Mendoza, Argentina, with the sole idea of working in wineries. 

Wānaka has provided a creative sea-change for former Brisbane theatre manager Jess Rasmussen and her partner Max Wasley, who moved to town four years ago without having visited before.

The Makarora Trapping Group is calling for people who like rambling off the beaten track to help boost its dwindling membership this year.

A new adventure-based event has been devised for Wānaka, but this time the activity is for dogs.

Results are in for Santana Minerals Ltd’s infill drilling programme at its Rise & Shine site near Bendigo, showing the prospect has been redefined but still has a "critical mass" of gold,...

Has anyone seen a movie star in a Wanaka supermarket lately?

Metlifecare is set to begin building Wānaka’s newest premium aged-care facility for up to 150 residents at Three Parks, next to the Wānaka Golf Course.

Once upon a time the Friends of Wānaka Library could whistle up 150 supporters for a protest march in the blink of an eye.

Metlifecare is set to begin building Wānaka’s newest premium aged care facility at Three Parks, next to the Wānaka Golf Course. 

Sometimes life gets so big, it is easy to lose joy in little things.

The prospect of a lake adventure, a feed of salmon or a splash of wine is being dangled in front of farmers this year as the Wanaka Show tries to entice more sheep section entries.

Forty years after Peter Swale’s dramatic first attempt to race the Flying Fifteen National Championships, he is returning to give it another crack — and this time he hopes his crew stays on board.

The Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 prompted Wānaka teenager Max Good, now 16, to re-evaluate his options so he could balance his books with biking. Wānaka Sun editor Marjorie Cook reports.

Writer Andrea Hotere is one book down and two to go, as she explores and writes about art world mysteries and intrigues.