Matthew Haggart

A mother's push for an infant memorial wall at the Wanaka cemetery has been answered with approval for the project, on the eve of International Baby Loss Awareness Day.

Winter may be fading and the Southern Lakes skifields closed for the year, but the country's leading ski and snowboard industry figures are already thinking about next season.

A contract to design a two-lane bridge to replace the single-lane Kawarau Falls bridge at Frankton is expected to be let in the next few weeks, but the $18 million bridge will have to vie for funding with similar projects around the country.

The old Wanaka Primary School in Tenby St will be mothballed while the Ministry of Education decides what to do with the property, which is valued at $1.736 million.

Wanaka teenager Mikayla Austin could join a select group of pioneering New Zealand female freeskiers if she realises her dream of competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

It was a day of firsts for a whole school yesterday on the first day of the new $21.5 million Wanaka Primary School.

Wanaka Primary School pupils return for the start of the fourth term today to a new $21.5 million school.

Earthworks are about to start on one of Wanaka's most ambitious commercial, residential and retail projects - the massive Three Parks development opposite the Ballantyne Rd industrial area.

The Otago Polytechnic's Centre for Sustainable Practice is undertaking a biodiesel-fuelled national roadshow tour to promote the launch of its new educational qualification.

Central Otago adaptive snowsports athletes Adam Hall, of Wanaka, and Carl Murphy, of Lake Hawea, have been selected as finalists in the sport category for the Attitude Awards, which honour the outstanding achievements of New Zealanders living with disabilities.

Wanaka residents are starting the countdown to the resort's popular Wanakafest event at Labour Weekend.

A council policy prohibiting caravan dwellers from living at camping grounds is causing ill-feeling towards the new manager of the Wanaka Lakeview Holiday Park, the Queenstown Lakes District Council.

New Zealand's top automotive apprentice, Wanaka mechanic Brock Johnston, will join Kiwi V8 racing driver Greg Murphy's pit team in Melbourne next month.