Mark Price

Large crowds have turned out for the first of the two main days of the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow.

Air traffic in and out of Wanaka Airport has been disrupted after a wartime Harvard was involved in a minor crash this morning.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has decided to sell a big chunk of residential land it owns in Wanaka.

More shops than not opened in Wanaka yesterday morning, despite the restrictions around trading on Good Friday.

Grey skies are lifting, temperatures are rising and the four-day Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow is under way.

More shops than not opened in Wanaka this morning, despite the restrictions around trading on Good Friday.

The Vampire has landed, the Messerschmitt is assembled, the Kittyhawk, the Avenger and the Harvards are in the plane park, and the weather is expected to improve.

The pilot flying the jetpack at the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow at Easter will not be on board - a disappointment to the man who invented it.

It is worth $4million, it is one of just five in the world and it should be ready to fly for the first time in Wanaka at any moment.

The Wanaka Golf Club is seeking support for the building of an underpass beneath Ballantyne Rd connecting the two parts of its course.

Willowridge Developments staff member Hannah Whelan adds another sold sticker to the board at the company's Timsfield subdivision in Lake Hawea on Wednesday night.

From a town with no community house to one with two.

Too much boat traffic and too much wind on Lake Wanaka has led to a proposal for a purpose-built water-ski lake near Albert Town.

Immigration New Zealand has apologised to the French au pair put in a Queenstown police cell for the night late last year and then deported because of concerns she might babysit while on holiday with her Australian employers and their two young children.

John van Beek, of Wire Art, Tekapo, sets up one of his rusty wire balls in fine, calm weather at the Wanaka A&P Show yesterday afternoon. Mr van Beek and his wife Lynda attend about six shows a year with a trailer load of rural art.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is diverting $507,214 from two water system projects to ensure the new Wanaka sports facility has water when it opens on July 1.

The Wanaka A&P Show's tent city was rising rapidly in hot, calm conditions yesterday, ahead of a forecast change to severe northwest gales early today.