Danelle Sheehan is a young GirlGuide who wanted to go on a camp to stay overnight at Mt Aspiring hut on November 30, but it was her Gran’s 75th birthday December 1. Danelle’s Mum spoke to her mum, Heather Churchill about it, and Heather...... Read More

NZ Olympic Committee announced the selection of local skier, Luca Harrington, to take part in the Youth Winter Olympic Games Team. “To be able to join the NZ team for the Youth Olympics is such an honour and a dream come true. It is a great privilege...... Read More

  The MAC junior school celebrated their hard work with two prizegiving ceremonies last week.   It was that time of year again for the Mount Aspiring College junior students to celebrate their achievements from 2019 in last week’s prizegiving....... Read More

Criticisms are growing around Mt Ida Road and Aubrey Road in relation to excessive flooding of both areas every time rain falls. This issue has seemingly been going on for the past three years, since the building of Northlake, and no action has been...... Read More

Summer is usually considered a time to get the boat out, but residents will need to start paying special attention to where exactly they’ll be allowed to indulge in the pastime. As of December 1, powered crafts on the Clutha River, between the...... Read More

The RuralFest 2019 was a two-day event hosted by the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa NZ (RHAANZ), during which representatives of its member organisations met to decide on the key issues impacting the health and wellbeing of the 600,000 people living...... Read More

Questions over access and accuracy of bowel screening are left being asked after the stage four bowel cancer diagnosis of Paul Cosgrove, a 64-year old Wānaka man that was denied a colonoscopy despite persistent bowel pain and a noted high risk of cancer....... Read More

Further work is being undertaken to understand active faults near Wānaka following a review completed in March this year. A recent review of active faults in the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago districts by GNS Science, commissioned by the Otago...... Read More

Last Thursday a new pressure injury prevention programme to train and support staff across the Southern district was launched by the Southern District Health Board (DHB) to coincide with International Stop Pressure Injury Day. Pressure injuries, also...... Read More

Enviroschools and sustainability are at the heart of what Wānaka Preschool does, and this week the early childhood centre re-reflected on the Silver paragraph. “This shows the whole school approach to sustainability is embedded and have been evaluated...... Read More