Mark Price

The avalanche four skiers safely avoided near the Treble Cone Ski Area yesterday was big enough to kill.

A handful of tennis balls is making life a little more comfortable for Wanaka's entry in the 16,000km Mongol Motor Rally.

The Dublin Bay garden of celebrity cook Annabel Langbein is not out of the woods yet.

NASA'S super pressure balloon has left Wanaka Airport at last, boosted by sighs of relief.

The chances of Makarora's phone system being upgraded appear more remote than the valley in which it lies.

Winter has finally returned to Wanaka and Queenstown's skifields.

The Treble Cone Ski Area hopes to open for the season on Saturday, more than three weeks after its due date.

Wanaka Alcohol Group chairwoman Rachel Brown has declined to release a report on teenage drinking in the town.

The Cardrona Alpine Resort turned on the snow for 11-year-old Auckland stroke victim Zoe Elvin yesterday.

The owner of an unusual craft moored on Lake Wanaka for the past few months is remaining tight-lipped about his plans.

The two-day Wanaka country music festival The Branding will not be held this New Year.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council will receive land rather than cash as a reserves contribution from the developers of three subdivision stages within the big new Northlake special zone.

Members of the Wanaka Community House Charitable Trust (from left) Cholena Perry, Dame Sukhi Turner (chairwoman), Yeverley McCarthy, and Nick Brown celebrated yesterday, along with other colleagues and supporters, the end of the long and expensive process of gaining resource consent from the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

Five years ago it was a debate bigger than Brexit - on a Wanaka scale.

The first stage of Wanaka's $30 million investment in new recreational facilities was officially opened yesterday afternoon.

It could be a week or more before the Treble Cone Ski Area is able to open for the first time this season.

The official opening of the Wanaka Recreation Centre today might well remind some people attending of their school ball.