A woman who drove her child to school while six times over the drink-driving limit has been sentenced to supervision and community work.

A new app by a New Zealand team connects family members young and old in a private, simple space.

Nasa's scientific balloon flight which eventually launched in Wanaka nearly two months ago has come to an end.

Nasa has successfully launched a super pressure balloon from Wanaka Airport to conduct near-space scientific investigations.

A much anticipated test flight for a Nasa super pressure balloon at Wanaka Airport has been cancelled today.

A defecating Wanaka burglar has been sentenced to almost two years' jail and ordered to pay$3000 reparation to victims of his New Year crime spree.

The 400m long, 100m high display, created by 800 litres of fuel and about 2km of wiring, will end the airshow at this year's Warbirds Over Wanaka.

A Wanaka woman says she experienced her "worst nightmare'' when her horse was left bloodied and dying after being tied to a tree by a stranger.

New Zealand guest nights rose in November for the 20th month in a row.

A Wanaka man has been sentenced to six months' community detention for kicking a man's head like he was "taking a place kick in rugby" while the man was on the ground.

An elderly librarian whose vehicle crashed into another librarian's vehicle on a single-lane bridge near Wanaka has been disqualified from driving for six months.

Police senior sergeant Craig Dinnissen said emergency services were called to the scene near Wanaka at 1.10pm.

The Martin Jetpack will get its first NZ public outing as a flying aeronautical wonder during the Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow.

A chef in a South Island tourist hot spot worked for around 60 hours per week and received about $1800 per month, some $660 less than he should have.

The winter storm that brought snow and heavy rain to many parts of the South is moving north, but many roads in the region remain affected in its wake this morning.

The South Island resort town of Wanaka has been rocked by a magnitude 4.1 earthquake tonight.

Danielle Wright snowshoes cross-country in Wanaka.

Two men arrested following a serious assault in Wanaka have had charges against them upgraded to attempted murder.

Two men charged with seriously assaulting Wanaka man Kahu Vincent on May 9 have continued name suppression at least for now.

Emergency crews trying to extract a man trapped inside his overturned four-wheel-drive looked up for a second and then got on with the job.

Paul Currie accidentally used a broad-spectrum herbicide to treat his grass, prompting his neighbours to think he had been targeted by vandals.

The US space giant has been linked to an apparent unauthorised flight over Wanaka yesterday morning by Sir Peter Jackson's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.

Following 10 days of unsettled weather in the wake of Cyclone Pam, Nasa will make its second attempt to launch its heavy-lift super pressure balloon.

All systems are go for the launch from Wanaka Airport this morning of Nasa's heavy-lift super pressure balloon.

There will be no prosecution over a burn-off at Wanaka last October, despite many official complaints about smoke from the fire blanketing the town.

It has been a "bad and very sad year already" for aviation in the south, the Civil Aviation Authority says.

Tributes are flowing in today for two of New Zealand's most experienced Cessna pilots who died in a horror crash that also claimed the lives of their two children.

Four bodies - believed to be from the same family - were last night recovered from the wreckage of a light aircraft near Wanaka.

Police have recovered four bodies from a light plane that crashed near Wanaka.