A partnership agreement with the new owners of Treble Cone has enabled the country's longest-running snowsport instructor training company to keep operating at the mountain. The Rookie Academy recently announced its terms of agreement with Cardrona...... Read More

Bob Steel has once again won the Wānaka Bowling Club’s Men’s Junior Pairs (with Alan Coupe) and the Men’s Junior Singles. This comes as a satisfactory reprise after his 2019 wins in the Junior Men’s Singles and Pairs Championships....... Read More

The 2020 Junior Jam Presented by Clif Bar & Company kicked off the first day of competition at the 38th Annual Burton U·S·Open Snowboarding Championships. The field featured 25 of the top boy and girl groms aged 14 and under competing...... Read More

It is with great delight that Braden Currie can say that for the second time in a row, he is the winner of Challenge Wānaka. The Upper Clutha local finished the race at 3hr:59min:48s, ahead of his rival racers by over three minutes. Currie, who finished...... Read More

There were a huge number of outstanding results from Aspiring Athletes Club at the Otago Children’s Champs and the Otago and Southland Senior Champs held over the weekend. For the size of team who attended these champs, Aspiring Athletes had...... Read More

Alan Coupe and Bob Steel, for the second year in a row, have won the Wānaka Bowling Club’s Men’s Junior Pairs Championship. A ‘junior’ is a bowler with one to five years of experience. Not only have they retained the title,...... Read More

New Zealand‘s Braden Currie (Wanaka) has confirmed he will be defending his 2019 title. Braden is one of the most respected names in the world of multisport, triathlon and adventure racing. Not only is he the 2019 Challenge Wānaka Champion, he...... Read More

Rob Hutchings, a 44-year-old Wānaka resident, has recently announced that he intends to swim the full 338kms of the Clutha River in five to six days next week, and will be completing the swim out of pure passion for the activity. The swim is scheduled...... Read More

Nico Porteous gained third place in the men’s Freeski Superpipe at the Dew Tour in the Copper Mountain, USA. The Wānaka athlete said, “I’m really happy with the way I skied and the final result. It's a good way to end my competitive...... Read More

Rivaling Katniss Everdeen in looks and skill, 14-year-old local Zoe Antone did Wānaka proud at the Archery NZ National Outdoor Target Championships in Auckland last weekend. The Mount Aspiring College student won a silver medal for the Individual 720...... Read More