A group of merry volunteers will be on-hand to wrap your Christmas presents for a gold coin donation again this year. Wrapped for Good will be stationed on Helwick Street every day from December 19 to 24 - using sustainable wrapping materials and raising...... Read More

Last week Wastebusters celebrated its 20th birthday. Originally called Wānaka Wastebusters, the organisation became Wastebusters when it joined forces with Alexandra about five years ago. But it has been a staple of Wānaka life in one form or the other...... Read More

A $30 million development at the junction of State Highway 84 and SH6 is still a possibility according to Mt Iron Junction co-owner Steve Schikker, despite a resource consent application being declined earlier in the year. Schikker was in mediation with...... Read More

Meg McLaughlan is no ordinary 17-year-old. The student from St Hilda’s College, is planning to swim the lengths of both Lake Hāwea and Lake Wānaka over five days in the New Year, to raise money for the Otago Division of the Cancer Society. The...... Read More

Local knowledge around fire awareness and preparedness in the northern Wānaka and Albert Town area is being sought by fire researchers to help residents, Fire and Emergency New Zealand and local government plan for future wildfires. In Wānaka, subdivisions...... Read More

Local youth have been invited via Snapchat and TikTok to apply for cherry-picking jobs this summer. Kahu Youth Trust, The Upper Clutha GSD Collective and CentralPac orchard in Cromwell are working together on an initiative that will see 100 young people...... Read More

Two Southern MP’s said a Government decision to allow RSE workers in to help with this season’s fruit harvest was needed but that numbers were insufficient and the timing was off.  Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean and Southland MP Joseph Mooney...... Read More

Mast bumping caused an in-flight breakup of a helicopter over Lake Wānaka, said the Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC). Matthew Wallis died when the Alpine Helicopters Robinson R44 he was flying crashed on July 21, 2018. Only months...... Read More

For most of us, one summit of Roy’s Peak in 24 hours is enough. But local trail runner and Queenstown Lakes District Council employee Tanya Bottomley (39) is aiming to make upwards of six summits between December 12 and December 13 to raise money...... Read More

Ray Grubb of Wānaka has been elected the new New Zealand Fish and Game Council chairman, after Paul Shortis stepped down. Grubb was the first Otago person to hold the position in 30 years. Grubb said protecting the country's freshwater would be...... Read More