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Proposed Lawrence community wetlands, a Clutha young professionals network and an extension of the Clutha Gold Trail are among the Clutha Development Trust (CDT) projects to receive council funding this financial year.

Wanaka film-maker Tim Pierce has won the New Zealand Mountain Film Festival's award for best New Zealand-made film for a second time.

Glenorchy's version of Gandalf, Rod Spackman, has become a real-life lord of the rings for tourists on his Tolkien-themed tours.

Wanaka's Braden Currie continued his impressive run in his debut season on the European Xterra circuit, with a hard-fought second place in the Xterra France last Sunday.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire looks at the key reasons for the Highlanders' loss to the Waratahs on Sunday night.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire rates the Highlanders after their loss to the Waratahs in Sydney.

For years, Cliff and Doreen Still's house overlooked the first green on the Tarras golf course, but their association with the country club extended far beyond the view.

Chandeliers, candlesticks, mushrooms ... ice formations mimic many objects and United States mountain climber Kitty Calhoun sees ''beauty'' in all of them.

Does the Dunedin Public Art Gallery overlook local talent?

A Frenchman who met his future New Zealand wife in Japan and is now delighted to call Otago home, Romain Mirosa is no ordinary entrant in the Dunedin marathon on September 14.

A drone-mounted GoPro camera hovering over the Wanaka skate park yesterday marked the start of the action at the town's 12th annual New Zealand Mountain Film Festival.

Suggestions of bias for a proposed watersports facility on Wanaka's lakefront angered and ''offended'' members of a hearing committee yesterday.

The loss of the long-established ''log cabin'' from Wanaka's waterfront would also mean losing the lake's ''de facto lifeguard'', lawyer Graeme Todd told the draft Wanaka lakefront reserves management plan hearing yesterday.

The authors of the draft Wanaka Lakefront reserves management plan were advised to go back to the drawing board yesterday.

There was cause for celebration at Southern Lakes skifields yesterday as the first of this week's forecast snow began blanketing the district's mountain ranges in time for next week's school holidays.

Government plans to bring forward construction of a new bridge at Kawarau Falls is ''sensational news'' which will help deliver a complete ''world-class experience'' for visitors, Destination Queenstown chief executive Graham Budd says.

ODT online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire offers some thoughts on the Highlanders' wi over the Chiefs in Dunedin.

ODT Online rugby writer Jeff Cheshire rates the Highlanders after their win over the Chiefs at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin last night.