New Zealand’s first large-scale inflatable water park, Kiwi Water Park, is set to open on Lake Dunstan just before Christmas this year.  The Facebook page for the park was created on November 3 and advertised for staff - including customer...... Read More

Wānaka's Millenium Pathway along the lakefront will be moved and its tiles replaced as part of a concept design for stage two of the lakefront development. Stage two along Ardmore St between McDougal St and the centre of town was approved by the...... Read More

Wānaka resident Anne Urlwin has been appointed as one of three new directors to the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC)’s Board of Directors. Urlwin is a director of Precinct Properties New Zealand Ltd, Tilt Renewables Ltd, Steel & Tube Holdings...... Read More

Skydive Wānaka (the second-largest skydive company in New Zealand) celebrates its 25th anniversary, after having weathered Covid-19 and coming out the other side. Meeting the COVID challenge head-on, Skydive Wānaka was committed to keeping the doors...... Read More

Volunteer South (formally Volunteering Otago and Volunteering Central) has been selected as one of three finalists in the Westpac Otago Business Awards in the excellence in not-for-profit category. Working with over 400 organisations across the Otago...... Read More

A Hāwea Flat School Jump Jam team has won the South Island Jump Jam Competition for the second year in a row, and a second team from the school placed third in the competition. Jump Jam is an aerobics discipline invented by world champion aerobics instructor...... Read More

Sonographer Jill Muirhead (64) has said she is very proud to have been awarded three separate awards in the last six months.  Muirhead, who trained at Dunedin Hospital in 1979, now works predominantly in Wanaka with Pacific Radiology, where she...... Read More

The expansion of Wanaka’s Mt Aspiring College takes another step towards completion after the Ministry of Education applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council for resource consent for a new building. The development would have the equivalent...... Read More

Wānaka’s Edgewater Hotel got behind Parkinson’s New Zealand’s fundraising drive last weekend by dedicating their usual Sunday high tea to the cause and raising over $2,000.  The event was so successful that Edgewater was asked...... Read More

A 31-year-old man from the Upper Clutha district was arrested, and guns and drugs recovered from a Lake Hawea property following a two-month investigation into the supply of methamphetamine in the Wānaka area. A police spokesperson said the man appeared...... Read More