Otago Daily Times: Queenstown Lakes

Auckland Zoo has launched a sponsorship programme to help protect endangered Otago skinks in the Grandview Range, near Wanaka.

The engine from a Royal New Zealand Air Force Harvard that crashed in Mt Aspiring National Park 60 years ago, killing one of the two men on board, has been discovered.

Time restrictions on car parking in the Queenstown Gardens will be temporarily removed next week while the Queenstown Lakes District Council resurfaces the Park St footpath.

A report into a planned ''boutique'' rental housing development in Arrowtown, valued at more than $3.5 million, recommends the community be consulted over the proposal, Local Government Act 2012 requirements appearing to have been satisfied.

A Department of Conservation (Doc) project to protect a rare ecosystem near Queenstown will receive a helping hand from the Queenstown Climbing Club.