Wanaka adventurer Mark Sedon and his wife, Jo, were not thinking too far into the future nine years ago when they decided to organise a mountain film festival.
It will be business as usual over winter at the Snow Park, which is scheduled to open on June 11 "with the co-operation of Mother Nature", Snow Park Holdings Ltd director Robin Sadowski-Synnott said yesterday.
The secrets of Luggate Creek will be revealed to the public with the opening of a new walking track on Sunday.
The Wanaka Rowing Club has released its latest clubhouse site proposal as it continues its attempts to identify a waterside location that would not offend a landscape-sensitive Wanaka community.
Sam Lee
Snow Park founder Sam Lee resigned yesterday from his position as operations manager of the terrain park and his role as director of Snow Park Holdings Ltd, citing a "deterioration of my professional relationship" and "a difference in values" with his business partners, Sean and Robin Synnott.
An amusement park and tourist attraction near Wanaka Airport has received the go-ahead from a Queenstown Lakes District Council resource consent panel.
Wanaka's anonymous graffiti yarnist has struck again, installing a rainbow-coloured jacket on a downpipe outside a Helwick St cafe owned by gay businessmen Paul Tregea and Chris Hadfield.
A 20-year-old Wanaka driver who crashed three times on Saturday night before being stopped by a lamppost was three times over the legal breath-alcohol limit, Wanaka police said yesterday.
The three-race Riverrun Trail Series wrapped up in Wanaka on Saturday with a 14km running race from Glendhu Bay to Roys Bay on the Millennium Track.
Olympian alpine skier Ben Griffin, of Ohakune, will lead a 14-strong New Zealand alpine ski team for this year's winter competition season and the Winter Games to be held in August.
A second round of community forums designed to "shape the future" of the Queenstown Lakes district began in Wanaka and Queenstown this week, with events taking their turn under the spotlight.
When Wanaka's skifields received an early fall of snow this week, few were more pleased than one of Treble Cone's most senior skiers, Betty Main.
The new owner of the former Wanaka Youth Hostel at 181-185 Upton St has applied for resource consent to clear the site and build four two-storey visitor accommodation town houses, containing a total of 12 units and up to 40 beds.
Wanaka Community Board chairman Lyal Cocks hopes the Damper Bay resource consent case can be resolved without going to the High Court for a judicial review but yesterday he could not reveal how negotiations with the developer were going.
Queenstown Lakes ratepayers have had their say on next year's spending and now it is time for the council to crunch the numbers.
Fears Queenstown Lakes District Council intends to remove angle-parking on upper Ardmore St sparked a rash of public submissions to the draft Wanaka Town Centre Character Guidelines, which closed last week.
A house in the heart of Wanaka's central business district has been sold, but it is not yet known whether the prime commercial site will be developed into offices and shops.
Winter Games NZ organisers say the event will become self-sustaining this year, with long-term economic impacts far exceeding those expected from the Rugby World Cup.
Wanaka's fluctuating economic fortunes were closely examined on Tuesday by more than 100 people at the first of several district-wide forums designed to guide future policy-makers and decision-makers.
The wreck of the helicopter involved in last Wednesday's fatal accident near Bow Peak in the Mt Aspiring National Park has been transported from Wanaka to Christchurch for secure storage.
