Ruapehu Alpine Lifts (RAL), operators of Mt Ruapehu, announced today that both the Whakapapa and Turoa ski areas will be closing on Sunday 30 October 2005. Mt Ruapehu will be the last ski area in ...

Thousands of skiers, snowboarders and sightseers will head up Mount Ruapehu this long weekend, with both skifields now ...

That's despite Mount Ruapehu's two ski resorts – Turoa and Whakapapa, 50 minutes apart on opposite sides of the mountain – with New Zealand's longest ski season, the highest ski-lifted point ...

Snow is falling and the school holidays are about to kick-start Mt Ruapehu's ski season into life. In a tale of two towns, the best of times are ahead for Ohakune, where the granting of a 10-year ...

Those in the tourism sector in the Ruapehu district are also having to adapt to the latest Covid-19 restrictions. Under level 2 Mt Ruapehu ski fields remain open but restrictions have been put in ...

Both access roads to Ruapehu's ski fields are now open after blizzard conditions brought a huge dump of snow. Ruapehu Alpine Lifts manager Simon Dickson said both the Whakapapa and Turoa fields ...

If volcano skiing in a National Park is more your speed, Mt. Ruapehu is only three hours from the Auckland airport and has two of the country's biggest ski areas.

The Government has agreed to give Ruapehu Alpine Lifts a $6 million loan to prevent the company from being liquidated and to enable the ski fields at Mt Ruapehu to open over winter.

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts had run both the Whakapapa and Tūroa ski fields on the central North Island mountain. The company went into receivership two and a half years ago, seeing Tūroa run by a new ...

In environmental news, Mount Ruapehu appears to be our country's first major casualty of climate change. The company behind the Whakapapa and Turoa ski fields at Ruapehu is in voluntary ...

You can stay on the South Island in New Zealand's quintessential mountain town, Queenstown, to explore the Southern Alps and see some of the country's most beautiful areas. If volcano skiing in a ...