With the Government’s recent push for Kiwis to remember to scan QR codes using their Covid-tracer app, the community is preparing for the possibility of another lockdown. The Health Ministry issued a media release on Monday that called for higher...... Read More

All signs notifying drivers about the 40km/hr speed limit were installed in most parts of Wānaka township by the end of November 2020. Since then the fines have come - and then the grumbles. But cars in slow-motion in our streets are a welcome sight...... Read More

The Hāwea Community Association (HCA) and a prominent developer are critical of the high intensity of sections in Longview, Hāwea, although the local man behind the proposed special housing area is satisfied people will be happy to live there. The...... Read More

Wānaka local and former Cardrona employee Jesse Moss has been reunited with his campervan, two months after it was stolen from a car park in Ohau and used for a “merciless crime spree” by a criminal on the run around the South Island.  Moss...... Read More

A new art venue has established itself in Queensberry, with an exhibition of the best of New Zealand sculpture, appropriately entitled ‘Defiance’ – conceived in defiance of 2020 and the year that it was.  The park, with 13 sculptures...... Read More

Around 140 riders turned out for a 96 km road race, the Lake Dunstan Cycle Challenge, last weekend. Cromwell Summer Series Race Director Bill Godsall said the race gave locals and visitors alike the opportunity to challenge themselves with a good long...... Read More

If ever proof was needed that grassroots support for horse racing is alive and well, this year’s Cromwell harness racing event was it, said the organisers.  Wyndham Harness Racing Club President Russell Ferguson said the support for Cromwell’s...... Read More

A cubist rendition of boats in Dunedin’s Deborah Bay was Supreme Winner at the Craigs Investment Partners’ Aspiring Art Prize, crowning another successful fundraising evening for Holy Family Catholic School. ‘Boat Study (View from Deborah...... Read More

Local artist Max De Roy is ready to launch the next stage of his creative career with a new exhibition - and a new name.  The ex-MAC student (formerly known as Max Hall), who returned home last year after living overseas in New York and London,...... Read More

Christchurch’s award-winning River City Jazzmen (RCJ) will be returning to deliver ‘authentic’ dixieland jazz at the Lake Wānaka Centre on January 23 in the venue’s first concert of 2021. This highly acclaimed band has appeared...... Read More