Predicted heavy rain from tomorrow is raising concerns about possible flooding of lakes Wakatipu and Wanaka.

Snow stopped tourists in their tracks on the Crown Range between Wanaka and Queenstown yesterday morning.

On a clear, calm day, there is just one place 85-year-old Wanaka woman Pat Stuart wants to be - tearing around the lake behind a jet boat on a single water ski.

It was a less than festive Christmas for some yesterday, as many younger family members itched and scratched their way through the celebrations.

The 38-year-old Italian man who died in a skydiving accident while filming a tandem jump in Wanaka yesterday has been named.

An Italian man is dead after his parachute failed to open on a skydiving flight and he crashed to his death in front of a horrified Wanaka man.

A skydiver has been killed near Wanaka today after falling to his death near the town's airport and landing in a local golf course.

A Wanaka accountant has been ordered to pay more than $26,000 after he was appointed receiver of a failed winemaker despite an obvious conflict of interest.

The Wanaka farmer whose authorised burn-off sparked a massive fire which burned over 350ha says neighbouring property owners are "ecstatic" with the outcome.

About 40 firefighters have managed to contain a large bush fire beneath the summit of Roy's Peak, Wanaka.

Danielle Wright hits the South Island ski fields, on a sled pulled by huskies.

A strong magnitude 5.3 earthquake has rocked much of the West Coast and Otago this morning.

Danielle Wright finally graduates off the bunny slope, with the help of a bicycle on three skis.

Heading down south by motorhome to the Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow is a nostalgic, and pie-filled, journey for pilot Michael Walsh.

Police in Wanaka are determined to "get to the bottom" of a series of incidents involving a naked man engaging in...