Mark Price

The lack of opportunities to mix and mingle with voters before  next month’s local elections has led one Otago Regional Council candidate to organise his own public meetings. Otago Daily...

A south American couple had to be rescued after they were swept into the middle of Lake Wanaka in a plastic dinghy yesterday.

The Otago Regional Council is looking at adding to the water stored in the underground Cardrona-Wanaka aquifer.

Some hunters are using the banks of the Cardrona River near Wanaka as a dumping ground for animal remains.

A curling stone believed to have been first sent down the ice in Scotland 400 years ago has come to rest near Tarras.

United States athletes dominated the 42km Merino Muster cross-country race at the Snow Farm on Saturday.

Queenstown Lakes District Council contractors have been preparing new ground for burials at the Wanaka cemetery.

Three men who went to sleep while cooking chips in their Wanaka accommodation had a lucky escape early today.

Cromwell's former The Nose restaurant went north yesterday.

Varina Proprietary Ltd is appealing to the Environment Court over resource consent conditions limiting the operation of its Wanaka conference centre Peak Functions.

Cardrona Valley farmer Hamish Mackay yesterday drank the water from Spotts Creek, running through his property, to prove a point.

There  is a chance Wanaka businesses will be trading next Easter Sunday legally rather than illegally.

It will be business as usual next Easter for Wanaka camera shop owner Steve Worley — and that means he will open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday, legally or illegally.

Otago's first same-sex married couple has been affected by tragedy.

Darryl Sherwin (left), of Wanaka, and Leon Ford, of Auckland, have reached Ulan Ude in Siberia and the end of the Mongol Motor Rally.

Four pin oak trees in Forrest Heights, Peninsula Bay, Wanaka, have had their tops cut off.

A new 13-lot residential subdivision is being proposed for a 118ha rural site on Kane Rd north of the Red Bridge near Luggate.

Get in quick and bring your log books.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has pulled back by one hour on its trial of extended parking restrictions in Queenstown's CBD.

Work is under way to remove arsenic-contaminated soil from one part of the Northlake residential subdivision in Wanaka and bury it in another part.