With all this rain, it’s hard to imagine the stunning warm night last Friday, with crowds turning out for a night of entertainment before turning on the lights of the Wānaka Christmas tree. With choral performances from Holy family and the Treble...... Read More

The recently opened Wānaka Watersports Facility (WWSF) is in possible danger of flooding as the water continues to rise. In 1999 the water level reached a record high level of 281.3m which is why the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has a minimum...... Read More

International Volunteer Day is celebrated every year on 5 December and champions the impact volunteers have in communities, nationally and globally. Wānaka has volunteers from all walks of life involved in many varied and diverse roles, each giving...... Read More

The point of our Forest & Bird monthly column is to inform you about our natural world; to highlight the challenges we face in protecting it; to ask for your help in defending  it; and to make you think.   So let us think about the implications...... Read More

Results of the 2019 National Sport Club Survey (NSCS), recently undertaken by the New Zealand Amateur Sport Association (NZASA) and Auckland University of Technology’s Sport Performance Research Institute of New Zealand (SPRINZ), reveal that many...... Read More

Around 100 students and their families gathered together to celebrate all of their learning as part of Aspiring Young Musicians last weekend in a fun end of year showcase. From as young as five years old to groups of teenagers, the concert was very...... Read More

Last Saturday police received a report at around 1.40am of a single-vehicle crash on SH6 in Luggate, near Wānaka airport. Upon the arrival of the emergency services, one person was found deceased. The Police Media Centre stated that the Serious Crash...... Read More

For lovers of Greig’s Nordic compositions, the upcoming Central Otago Regional Orchestra performance is not to be missed.  “To give this concert its Northern Lights flavor we will be playing two movements from Grieg's Peer Gynt...... Read More

Preliminary results of the Central Lakes Trust election have been announced with Wānaka’s Kathy Dedo voted onto the board.  “I feel overwhelmed and humbled to be voted on to the Trust,” said Dedo. “It's an uncomfortable...... Read More

Junior 1 jazz dancers performing as African Lions.  Elementary 2 jazz dancers performing Country Hoedown in the Wild West Gallery. Elementary 3 jazz dancers performing as Egyptian goddesses. Advanced jazz dancers performing as Egyptian mummies. Acro...... Read More