James Beech

Queenstown's fledgling health watchdog says it looks forward to the outcome of a clinicians' forum on the controversial issue of where a diagnostic scanner should go to serve both Central and Lakes districts.

A proposed law to "Monday-ise" Waitangi Day and Anzac Days when they fall on weekends will stimulate domestic tourism, the lobbying Tourism Industry Association New Zealand says.

One of Queenstown's finest chefs has explored the dark side of culinary desire to create a tantalising degustation inspired by "the Seven Deadly Sins" to inflame the senses of diners on St Valentine's Day.

St John Queenstown ambulance officers are used to getting hearts pumping and never more so than on St Valentine's Day, when crews spread the love around Wakatipu.

Queenstown is the natural place for a Tauranga artist to make her South Island exhibition debut, Susan Harrison-Tustain says.

A winning combination of original music, theatre and comedy will delight heartland New Zealand audiences, including Queenstown, on March 7.

Generations of Arrowtown children let their imaginations run wild guessing what was inside the locked and abandoned historic magazine, at the Malaghans and McDonnell crossroads, but conservationists found nothing other than two copies of the Otago Daily Times, straw and broken beer bottles.

The "changing face of rural health" will be the theme of speeches and workshops when Queenstown hosts hundreds of health professionals next month.

A high-risk entrance to a car park on the busy Glenorchy-Queenstown Rd will be blocked when the car park is moved to a new and larger site by the end of the month, the Department of Conservation (Doc) Wakatipu area office says.

About 50 artworks by 17 leading New Zealand contemporary artists will be shown in Milford Galleries Queenstown from Saturday.