A new layout for the Upper Clutha A and P Show this year should provide better security for trade exhibitors and improve the flow of pedestrians between Pembroke Park and the Wanaka Showgrounds, co-ordinator Jane Stalker said yesterday.
Festival of Colour co-ordinator Lindsey Schofield was hard-pressed this week to pick her "must-see" show for the six-day Wanaka event in April, but has already decided Ole Ola and Rita and Douglas will be hits.
Disc frisbee supporters say their sport is a fun, social and inexpensive, but others say it is too active to be played at Lismore Park, which would be made unsafe by flying missiles.
A mothballed Skyhawk fighter-bomber may yet grace the New Zealand Fighter Pilots' Museum in Wanaka but museum trust chairman Don Spary of Arrowtown is not holding his breath.
There were 52 Model T Ford motorcars in Wanaka this weekend - enough to drive a different vehicle every week of the year.
Wanaka company director Derek Kirke has described his first day as chairman of listed company New Zealand Wool Services International (WSI) as a "baptism of fire".
The opening of the three-month "Sculpture in Central Otago" exhibition at Rippon Vineyard on Friday has provided a talking point for the district's art lovers.
Wanaka residents are speculating on the fate of the late Gra and Olive West's concrete block lakefront home in the heart of town, after confirmation yesterday the 1131sq m property has been sold.
Everyone was happy at Lake Hawea's Timsfield subdivision on Saturday, after a three-bedroom house sold for $315,000, just 15 minutes after it was passed in at auction for $310,500.
A group of Wanaka artists has suggested the former Wanaka Primary School in Tenby St could be used as a temporary arts hub.
First-time exhibitor Shane Woolridge, of Arrowtown, hopes the three-month Sculpture in Central Otago will boost his ambition to become a full-time artist.
Injured German tramper Felix Ferkau (20) has praised Wanaka volunteer search and rescue team members for being "real heroes" in coming to his aid on the Cascade Saddle, near Mt Aspiring, yesterday and was stunned to learn he had survived a 50m fall at a tramping black spot.
Wanaka Land Search and Rescue team leader Gary Dickson has called for an outdoor education campaign drawing international tourists' attention to New Zealand's alpine conditions.
There are only two choices for Hawea district residents this weekend - "red" or "blue". The annual "town versus country challenge" starts tomorrow night, with a...
Six English ash trees in Wanaka's noted avenue of plane trees in Mt Aspiring Rd are in "very serious decline" and will be removed by the Queenstown Lakes District Council in the next few weeks.
New Zealand skeleton racers Ben Sandford and Katharine Eustace achieved their best results at the world cup skeleton racing competition at St Moritz, Switzerland, on Sunday and showed they can foot it with the world's best.
The Wanaka Rowing Club has been told to erect profile poles on the lakeside reserve at the end of McDougall St, showing where a proposed clubhouse might be built.
Lakeview Tce home-owners will be trusted not to drive across the Lake Hawea reserve to gain access to their homes, following a heated Wanaka Community Board meeting yesterday.
Wanaka skeleton racer Katharine Eustace has won the St Moritz Europa Cup.
Next Saturday's long-distance triathlon in Wanaka is really just a 10-minute race - after about eight or nine hours of warming up over more than 200km.
