Proposed properties near Millbrook Resort that have the potential to adversely affect views were discussed during the first day of a two-day hearing in the Environment Court at Queenstown yesterday before Judge Jane Borthwick and commissioners Charles Manning and Alex Sutherland, all of Christchurch.
Queenstown adventure sports retailer Outside Sports has secured a deal which will see its stores in Queenstown, Wanaka and Te Anau become exclusive stockists of top international bike brand Specialized.
Two Arrowtown rugby players - dressed in netball uniforms - emerged victorious on Saturday afternoon, taking just under three hours to complete the Battle of the Basin 2010.
Guess who's been holidaying in Queenstown?
A story about a boy who tried to fish in a stream polluted by dairy effluent won the top prize in the Queenstown Creative Writing Group's inaugural writing competition, announced in the resort last night.
A "town in a tent" is how Queenstown real estate agent and Rotary Queenstown president Chris Campbell describes Tuesday's Melbourne Cup event - this year being held at Jack Reid Park in Arrowtown.
The thorny issue of water metering will be one of the first topics tackled by the incoming Central Otago District Council.
Vanessa van Uden's first meeting as the new mayor of the Queenstown Lakes district took just under 30 minutes beside a picture-perfect Lake Hayes near Arrowtown last night.
Being elected mayor of the Queenstown Lakes District Council last weekend was a dream come true for Vanessa van Uden, who talks to Tracey Roxburgh about her life and her rapid rise to the Wakatipu's top job.
Arrowtown hairdresser Rosemary Chalmers - whose business is helping her clients look and feel good about themselves, and encouraging her staff to achieve their goals, has just completed a make-over on a very special "person" - her salon.
Parents of prospective pupils at Remarkables Primary School, which officially opened in August, are invited to the school's open day this Sunday.
Reducing the Queenstown-Lakes District Council's debt - estimated to reach $400 million by 2019 - is at the top of new mayor Vanessa van Uden's priority list, she said yesterday.
A three to five-day High Court hearing about the strategic alliance between Queenstown Airport Corporation and Auckland International Airport Ltd is likely to take place next year.
About 100 possums have been caught in the Lake Hayes area over the past three weeks through an Animal Health Board exercise designed to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (Tb).
The 14th and final bridge on the Gibbston River Trail was carefully lowered into place yesterday.
At 5pm Clive Geddes will walk out of the council offices on Gorge Rd for the last time as mayor of the Queenstown Lakes district - and resume a private life which has been on the back burner for the past nine years.
The Lakes District Museum is hoping to host an international exhibition next year, but to do so the museum needs to find a sponsor.
Arrowtown resident Don Spary says the Queenstown Lakes District Council's decision this week to adopt commissioners' recommendations and create a boundary around the town would not get "to the root of the problem".
Queenstown-based actor Sam Neill has called for calm in the dispute over Sir Peter Jackson's The Hobbit and says he is "dismayed" by controversy surrounding the film.
Lakes Leisure and Alpine Health & Fitness are getting behind the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation, with three special events this month.