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1 week ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaIf you are tired of the Wānaka inversion layer already, we have bad news. It is due to stay over the long weekend too. Locals always know it is coming, but that does not stop the groans in the air. MetService meteorologist Devlin Lyndon said the inversion would clear by the end of the week due to showers, but would likely be back for Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
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1 week ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
Diversify is one of those words Lake Hāwea farmer and contractor Donald Urquhart has strapped into his vocabulary over the past decade while the face of the rural area has changed. The 71-year-old was brought up on a farm at the foot of Lake Hāwea and the Urquhart name is a familiar one to the area.
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1 week ago | 
odt.co.nz | Guy Williams |Olivia Caldwell
Alexa Macdonald had something more than her skifield pass giving her access to the opening weekend of the Queenstown and Wanaka ski season — an excuse note from her friend’s mum to the skifield manager. Coronet Peak, The Remarkables and Cardrona Alpine Resort all opened to blue skies and calm conditions on Saturday.
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2 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaWānaka jeweller Alice Herald received second place at the renowned Couture Show in Las Vegas this week. Ms Herald was exhibiting her work at the prestigious invitation-only international jewellery design show, and was the first Kiwi jewellery designer to be invited to exhibit.
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2 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaBrought up on Lake Hāwea Station, which the Rowley family farmed for more than a century, two rural sisters recall the "simple life" of their youth on what has since become the country’s first carbon zero farm.
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2 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaA $3.5 million view on Wānaka’s Tiffany Lane has sold — and that is without a house. The 1799sq m empty section was sold in April and finally settled this month to a South Island buyer who is "very familiar with Wānaka", Whitefox Real Estate agent Sara Cleugh said.
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2 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
Lake Hāwea will have dust issues and its water quality, fishery, plant life and ecology will degrade if Contact Energy’s fast-track approval to lower the lake goes ahead. Lake Hāwea’s normal water levels sits between 346m (metres above sea level) and 338m. Contact Energy has applied to lower this by 2m at levels from 446m to 336m. The energy company has applied to drop the lake a further 6m in emergency situations, to 330m.
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3 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
After being placed first at the New Zealand and Australia trampoline championships this year, Wānaka trampoliner Blake Hartley is off to the world champs in Barcelona, Spain. Freestyle trampoline is a fast-growing new sport, especially in Wānaka where the Site trampoline venue has over 200 juniors and seniors registered. Harley said he had been trampolining since he was a child in his backyard, and really kicked into gear in 2020. "I’ve been passionate about it for nearly 10 years.
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3 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
A sum of $250,000 will be allocated from the Otago Regional Council’s general rates to fund a business plan for Wānaka public transport at the end of the year. The funding had been removed from the council’s plans this year, but on Wednesday regional councillor Michael Laws successfully moved that ORC funding for a Wānaka public transport bus case be returned to the council’s budget for the next financial year.
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3 weeks ago | 
odt.co.nz | Olivia Caldwell
You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsWanakaHāwea Flat’s Windmill Corner has about 30 residents who live around the bend, literally. But on that 100m bend on Kane Rd there are two blind spots which locals fear could result in an accident if the speed limit is not reduced.
