Police are criticising a couple who used their essential worker status to get to Hamilton and then flew to their holiday home in Wanaka. Read...

Auckland will stay in level 4, and rest of NZ at level 2, until 11.59pm next Tuesday, with concerns lingering over the handful of mystery cases. Read...

The couple crossed the alert level 4 border with an essential worker exemption and flew from Hamilton Airport to their holiday home, police say. Read...

An off-duty paramedic tried in vain to save a motorcyclist`s life after coming across a crash on the Crown Range Rd yesterday.Other motorists also helped the Invercargill man, who was travelling with a group from Queenstown to Wanaka.St... Read...

A Wanaka environmental campaigner is gearing up to fight a billionaire`s plan to build a luxury lodge on the shores of Lake Wanaka. It has been 10 years since the Upper Clutha Environmental Society and the Wanaka Residents Association... Read...

A person has died in a car wash at a petrol station in Wanaka.Emergency services were called to the Caltex Wanaka on Ardmore St about 2pm today. Read More Person dies after falling at Lower Hutt business; WorkSafe, police... Read...

The mammoth scale of a film studio planned for the outskirts of Wanaka, set to include replicas of New York, Venice and Paris, has been revealed in plans lodged with the Government.The Silverlight Studios team of Weta Digital veteran... Read...

A next-generation telescope that could help yield new insights about mysterious dark matter will be launched from New Zealand and into the edge of space next year.Next April, the Superpressure Balloon-borne Imaging Telescope, dubbed... Read...

Queenstown and Wanaka ski fields are no longer banking on Australia to help boost visitor numbers this season as more Covid-19 restrictions are implemented across the Tasman.Australia`s Covid-19 outbreaks, lockdowns, and travel... Read...

A group of adventurers has achieved a thrill of a lifetime.Years in the making, a high-line was installed over a cliff and across a bay on Banks Peninsula near Christchurch.A group of six people, from Queenstown and Wanaka, spent... Read...