The first major women’s bowls tournament of the new season was held at the Wānaka Bowling Club on Thursday September 19 in brilliant sunny weather. The Wānaka Ladies ‘Spring into bowls’ tournament is held annually, with visiting...... Read More

Bridge club players from Wānaka and Cromwell clubs came out on top in the Wānaka intermediate pairs bridge tournament last Sunday. Mark Harry and Marc Simmonds, both from Wānaka, won the tournament with an average score of 60.36 percent across the...... Read More

The Wānaka Lakes Health Centre social netball team are please to announce that they won the adults social B grade this season. The team, mostly made up of staff from the health centre, played against Mountainside in the final.  Team member Heather...... Read More

Upper Clutha Sports Community’s (UCSC) has announced its line-up for their speaker series on September 24. ‘Mind over matter: success in the face of adversity’ is the theme of the talks evening, which aims to create a forum for local...... Read More

Yesterday, September 18, Special Olympics New Zealand kicked off the 2019 national winter games at Cardrona Resort. The games are hosted for around 50 athletes with intellectual disabilities and a passion for snowsports, particularly snowboarding and...... Read More

A Wānaka girl has placed third in one of Australasia’s biggest long-distance, cross-country ski races. Twelve-year-old Olivia Helmore raced in the Kangaroo Hoppet 2019 in Falls Creek, Victoria, Australia, on August 24; she came in third in the...... Read More

Wānaka’s Braden Currie announced he will take on the 2020 World Ironman 70.3 Championship in Taupō; his placement was guaranteed after his win at the Ironman 70.3 Sunshine Coast last Sunday.  With a race finish time of 03:44:47 last weekend,...... Read More

Day 16, the day of the Trans-Tasman Challenge and FIS Freeski World Cup Halfpipe Finals, which took place last Saturday at Queenstown Ice Arena and Cardrona Alpine Resort respectively, marked the end of QRC Winter Games NZ 2019, fuelled by Forsyth Barr.  Participants...... Read More

Wānaka hosted Queenstown Rovers in their final game at the Wānaka Recreation Centre. Wānaka had the experienced trio of Carmichael, Hodgson and Grehan returning to the starting 11 along with young goalkeeper, Britton Dowling. The opening 20 minutes...... Read More

Upper Clutha Senior Reserve B (under 15 years old) took on the unbeaten Cromwell Red team in last Thursday’s (August 29) final. The first half saw Upper Clutha play exceptional hockey. Defenders Maggie Dougherty, Henri Fenn, Caitlin Curtis, Zoe...... Read More