Two Wānaka supermarkets have deliberately breached holiday trading laws by remaining open throughout Easter weekend. New World Wānaka and New World Three.
A paper published in the New Zealand Journal of Ecology found private land, in particular sheep and beef farmland, contains a quarter of the remaining native.
As I write this, the day has gone from the clearest blue sky to a tempest of pelting rain. The temperature is forecast to drop to 3C later today, with snow.
The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating after a helicopter crashed on Mt Hyde, Otago near Wānaka last night. The Rescue Co-ordination Centre (RCCNZ).
Police have identified the man whose body was found in Lake Wānaka on New Year’s Eve. He was Codey Jervis, 32, of London, UK. He was originally from New.