Mark Price

Builder chosen for new school

Christchurch company Southbase Construction has been engaged to build the new Wanaka South Primary School.

Cavalcade hailed 'wonderful success'

For a few moments, cars gave way as 350 horses and their riders took over the main street of Lake...

Cavalcade hailed 'wonderful success'

Hundreds of horses, riders, wagons, walkers and cyclists rolled into Lake Hawea on Saturday at the end of Otago Goldfields Cavalcade 2019.

Cavalcade comes to a close

Cavalcade participants parade through Lake Hawea township today. Photo: Mark Price

Cavalcade comes to a close

About 350 horses and their riders trotted through the centre of the Lake Hawea township this morning at the end of this year's cavalcade.

Residents weigh in on their towns' future

Lake Hawea residents feel they are not listened to when consulted about the town’s expansion.

Residents weigh in on their towns' future

On four evenings over the past fortnight, staff from the Queenstown Lakes District Council have put to residents questions about what they want for their towns over the next 30 years.

Locals had chance to buy hotel

Locals had chance to buy hotel

Residents concerned the new owners of the Clyde Hotel might close it had every chance to buy it and keep it running.

Kiwibuild sales give wrong idea: developer

Wanaka developer David Reid shows Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust chairman Andrew Blair ...

Kiwibuild sales give wrong idea: developer

Slow sales of KiwiBuild homes in Wanaka are giving the false impression the housing market there has gone "off the boil'', according to developer David Reid.

Wanaka international airport idea condemned

Wanaka international airport idea condemned

Turning Wanaka Airport into an international destination would "devastate'' Wanaka, according to a visiting American airport builder.

Balloon launch deflates - and we can blame Trump

US President Donald Trump's government shutdown has put paid to a super-pressure balloon launch from Wanaka Airport this year.

Hope to save lakefront millennium tile path

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is considering shifting the 2000 tiles that make up Wanaka...

Hope to save lakefront millennium tile path

The organisers of a 1700-signature petition calling for the retention of the millennium tile path along the Wanaka lakefront are feeling a little more confident the path will be saved.

Kiwis take gold, US silver in half-triathlon

Braden Currie, of Wanaka, crosses the finish line. Photos: Mark Price

Kiwis take gold, US silver in half-triathlon

It was New Zealand gold, America silver - times two - at the Challenge Wanaka half-triathlon on Saturday.

Businesses mostly back airport plan

Expansion of Wanaka Airport was supported by 52% of the members of the Wanaka Chamber of Commerce who took part in a survey late last year.

Doubts overflying aircraft backhome

Doubts overflying aircraft backhome

Will it fly? ... That's one of the questions hanging over the idea of bringing back to the Queenstown Lakes District one of the tourist industry's original passenger airliners.

'It's no wonder no-one wants to buy them'

Two two-bedroom KiwiBuild units in a duplex at Northlake, Wanaka. Photo: Mark Price

'It's no wonder no-one wants to buy them'

Kiwibuild is not changing course on its plans to build 211 houses in Wanaka's Northlake subdivision despite only four of the first 10 in the area selling so far.

Historic plane may come home

Mt Cook Airlines' Hawker Siddeley 748 ZK-CWJ after landing in New Zealand for the first time in...

Historic plane may come home

The plane "that built Queenstown'' and is now lying derelict in Bangladesh might be brought back to the Lakes District.

Medical Centre being sued by developer

Wanaka Medical Centre Ltd is being taken to court by Northlake Investments Ltd.

A knight’s end

A knight’s end

Ten-year-old Domenico Robinson, of Wanaka, dispatches Alexandra knight Tim Bosse at the Medieval Festival organised by Wanaka’s Holy Family Catholic School on Saturday.