Essential safety work on slippery slopes

Avalanche technician Simon Morris checks the Lidar unit. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

Essential safety work on slippery slopes

Year-round access to Milford Sound is often taken for granted, particularly in summer, but there is always the potential risk of an avalanche barrelling across New Zealand’s only alpine highway....

Latest stage of lakefront works nearly done

Latest stage of lakefront works nearly done

Construction of stage three of the Wanaka Lakefront Development is close to completion and sections of the pathway and boardwalk are already able to be used.

Public input means board likely to stay

Future representation of Wanaka in the Queenstown Lakes District looks set to include the area’s community board, following overwhelming public feedback to retain it.

Calls to ensure Lismore Park remains informal park space

Queenstown Lakes District Council Deputy Mayor Calum MacLeod sent this photo to council staff in...

Calls to ensure Lismore Park remains informal park space

A long-time Wanaka resident who fought for years to keep Pembroke Park free from development is now fighting to save the town’s oldest reserve.

Sticky Forest mediation to decide future access

The Queenstown Lakes District Council and representatives of the Maori landowners will discuss...

Sticky Forest mediation to decide future access

Mediation over securing access to one of Wanaka’s premier mountain biking spots is set to begin next week.

Resort prepares for Level 2 guests

Wanaka’s Edgewater Resort staff (from left) restaurant barista, food and beverage attendant Maddy...

Resort prepares for Level 2 guests

Staff at Wanaka’s Edgewater Resort hotel spent yesterday preparing the rooms and the restaurant for guests coming to stay under Alert Level 2 Covid-19 restrictions.

More than a flurry on its way

Although it looked pristine yesterday it could be a case of ‘‘careful what you wish for’’ as staff at Cardrona Alpine Resort and Treble Cone had to prepare the skifields for opening in whiteout...

Wanaka petition reaches goal

Dean Rankin checks on the progress of his petition for Wanaka to become its own district council area during a break yesterday.

‘Happy’ to receive Covid jabs

Vaccinating the unvaccinated in big numbers and safely was the aim of three separate pop-up Covid-19 vaccination clinics in Wanaka over the weekend.

Organiser stepping down

A Wanaka music festival organiser who has been championing Kiwi music for more than two decades is stepping down and the festival is hitting the pause button for a year.

Varied responses to call for own council

Some Wanaka residents are speaking out about the increasingly pricey town amid an influx of...

Varied responses to call for own council

A petition proposing a new and separate council for Wanaka has had a mixed response from the town’s politicians.

Change of mind on retaining board

The people have been heard.

Hundreds want town to get its own council

Dean Rankin with son Ethan (7) at the lookout in front of Wanaka’s War Memorial.PHOTO: KERRIE...

Hundreds want town to get its own council

A Wanaka man who started an online petition to support the idea of a new and separate local council for the resort town has been amazed by the response so far.

Care facility construction set for 2022

Bulk earthworks are under way at the site of the Northbrook Wanaka retirement village development...

Care facility construction set for 2022

The company behind a new retirement village and private hospital in Wanaka has started marketing its development and announced construction will start next year.

One of the very few silver linings in the forced cancellation of Warbirds Over Wanaka last year due to Covid-19 was to allow more time for maintenance on the Catalina aircraft (pictured at the 2016...

Support to retain board clear

Support to retain board clear

The desire to retain the Wanaka Community Board and the need to strengthen and support its authority were two of the ‘‘clear messages’’ delivered to councillors yesterday.

Grebe nests off to a strong start

Grebe nests off to a strong start

Spring-like temperatures this month could be the reason pairs of grebes were already on their artificial floating platform nests and incubating eggs at Lake Wanaka marina with the first clutch of eggs due to hatch.

Representation shake-up hearings to go ahead online

The woman had to change her travel plans to Queenstown due to this week's Alert Level 4 lockdown....

Representation shake-up hearings to go ahead online

Public hearings on the proposed changes to representation in the Queenstown Lakes district will start today, despite a call for them to be postponed.

Algae problems now more in Queenstown

While complaints about the green slime ‘‘lake snow’’ found in the Southern lakes, which clogs...

Algae problems now more in Queenstown

Apathy could be behind the smaller number of complaints about the floating jelly-like substance ‘‘lake snow’’ in Wanaka.

Rumours of Wanaka Covid case proven wrong

An employee checks shoppers are wearing masks as they line up outside the town centre New World...

Rumours of Wanaka Covid case proven wrong

Community leaders are urging Wanaka residents to ignore rumours and to get their information on the location of Covid-19 cases only from official sources.

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