The completion of the Wanaka CBD fibre broadband network has been regarded as paramount for the ability of local businesses to prosper and for the town to be able to attract business people wanting to relocate from the cities but yet still be able to compete with their city based counterparts. Wanaka a lifestyle and [...]

New Zealand’s largest private land protection agreement includes the ecological restoration project of a huge expanse of iconic high country land between Wanaka and Queenstown. The land is all under the foreign ownership of a Swiss based multimillionaire music producer. The land encompasses four crown pastoral lease packages totalling an investment package of somewhere north [...]

The Warbirds & Wheels attraction will soon have the original car from the 1968 movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang exclusively on loan from owner Sir Peter Jackson to the Warbirds museum. The fantastic flying and driving machine will only be on display at Warbirds & Wheels in April 2015, and coincides with the Easter school [...]

Wanaka Airport could soon become a base for NASA if a test flight of a scientific balloon launch planned for March is successful. If the test launch of the balloon into the upper atmosphere from Wanaka was successful, more would be launched to allow scientific data to be gathered. The data would be used to [...]