The commissioners considering a resource consent application to build a watersports facility on the Lake Wanaka foreshore are asking for more details about a "minor re-siting'' of the controversial building.
Two 1080 poison drops are on the cards for the Mt Aspiring region, near Wanaka, later this year.
A piece of land pivotal to the expansion of Wanaka Airport has been taken off the market.
Will here be wine and beer at the official opening of the Wanaka Sports Facility or just tea and orange juice?
A Bannockburn tree-breeder believes the Queenstown Lakes District Council is in danger of going too far over prohibiting exotic trees.
The chunky 70-page Federated Farmers of New Zealand submission picks away at the wording of the proposed rural zone chapter of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's district plan.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council's proposed objectives, policies and rules for farmland in the district run to a modest 32 pages. But getting the wording just right has involved hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pages of appendices, evidence, legal arguments and submissions. Otago Daily Times Wanaka bureau chief Mark Price picked out two documents for closer examination.
There will be a contest in October for the three Wanaka ward seats on the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is not setting out to ‘‘prop up'' the district's farmers through its proposed district plan.
Not even the Upper Clutha Hospice Shop is immune from shoplifting.
A possum in the Lake Hawea reservoir has led to "emergency chlorination'' being put in place for a small part of the township's water supply.
The ‘‘she'll be right'' New Zealand attitude to things does not seem to be rubbing off on Nasa.
A Wanaka businessman wants the chance to bid for Wanaka Airport if the Queenstown Lakes District Council decides to sell it.
Tricky autumn wind conditions have not put Nasa off Wanaka Airport as a launch site for giant super-pressure balloons.
More land, more runway, more hangars, more passengers, bigger fees and a change of ownership are in the wind for Wanaka Airport.
Waitaki Member of Parliament Jacqui Dean has been accused of attempting to influence the decision of two independent resource consent commissioners in favour of Wanaka celebrity cook Annabel Langbein.
So many services; so few pipers.
Tomorrow, Anzac Day, New Zealand will commemorate the soldiers who travelled to foreign fields to fight and die for the sake of the country's peace and security. But, as Otago Daily Times Wanaka...
It appears as though celebrity chef Annabel Langbein will need to get her garden in order to have a chance of gaining resource consent for new buildings on her 9ha property overlooking Dublin Bay, Lake Wanaka.
Celebrity cook Annabel Langbein has changed her plans for her Dublin Bay property, near Wanaka, but has still not done enough to satisfy Queenstown Lakes District Council planners.
