Property investment company Roa has unveiled plans for a $300 million hospital in Wānaka with four operating theatres and a 24-hour emergency department.
Books are hot to trot at Wānaka's The Next Chapter, celebrating its fourth birthday this year and was recently included in US writer Elizabeth Stamp’s "150 bookshops to visit before you die".
A large troupe of teenage musical performers are buzzing with anticipation as they rehearse their upcoming production, Legally Blonde JR, to be performed at the Lake Wānaka Centre from May 16-18.
The Wānaka Rowing Club hosted a South Island masters rowing regatta at Glendhu Bay on April 26 and 27, with 248 athletes from 25 clubs competing for honours.
At the Hāwea War Memorial, attendees pulled the hoods of their coats forward and listened to the words of lead speaker Sergeant Lorne Capell, who commended them for their commitment to attending.
Queenstown Lakes district councillors have unanimously agreed to offload nine "aged and weary" elderly housing units to the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust.
The discovery of an unsecured firearm at Wānaka Airport should serve as a reminder about the importance of responsible gun ownership, Senior Sergeant Fiona Roberts says.
Colin Monteath’s Erebus The Ice Dragon: A Portrait of an Antarctic Volcano is this year’s "spell-binding" winner of the Nankervis/Bamford NZ Mountain Book of the Year.
Urgent changes must be made to recently tightened visa rules if provincial areas are to avoid being "adversely impacted", Waitaki MP Miles Anderson says.
Vaughan Fittall, a real-life fighter for freedom, is the Kiwi hero of Wānaka writer Toby Butland’s recently released children’s book, Fittall the Flyer.
The charity behind a well-loved Wānaka plant nursery must explore the possibility of uprooting to a new location after learning their future at the current site is uncertain.
The organisers behind the popular Rhythm & Alps music festival have revealed plans for a summer concert in Wānaka they believe could attract upwards of 20,000 people to the town.
Lurking 50m below the surface of Otago’s freshwater lakes in a twilight zone are the bryophytes — a freakish and globally rare community of deep-water mosses and liverwort species.