Tracey Roxburgh

A Hilton hotel for Queenstown looks certain, with the company advertising on its website for a business development director and an operations director.

Today 49 students will graduate from the Queenstown Resort College.

The Oaks Hotels and Resorts NZ Ltd has been ordered to pay a former Queenstown employee $10,000 in lost wages and compensation for unjustified dismissal in 2008.

Twelve months ago Alison Beaumont looked in the mirror and asked herself a question which would change her life.

About 11,000 customers in the Wakatipu basin were left without power for just over an hour yesterday morning after a fault in a Transpower line.

Some have completed Wanaka Challenge, or conquered the Lake Hayes Women's Triathlon, some have quit their jobs and travelled overseas.

Queenstown's Taylor Rapley had two podium finishes in the United States at the weekend, finishing second in the slalom and third in the GS at FIS races in Eldora, Colorado.

Electricity cut between Gibbston and Glenorchy:

Some people woke to a cold shower and others had to wait until 10am for a caffeine fix yesterday when power was cut just after 8.30am to about 11,000 customers between Gibbston and Glenorchy.

A controversial proposed control regarding newspaper stands was deleted from a draft Queenstown Lakes District Council bylaw yesterday, but an amended provision may yet be included.

Queenstown business MedRecruit, a recruitment agency for doctors, has become the first company in the world to be accredited as a "Healthy Thinking" organisation by New Zealand's Healthy Thinking Institute.