The Queenstown Lakes District Council is now seeking an alternative solution for dumping Wanaka sewage, this time near Luggate, having failed to gain support for a similar proposal in the Ardgour Valley, near Tarras, last year.
The whereabouts of Amber-Lee Cruickshank remain a mystery after bones discovered on the Kingston foreshore yesterday afternoon were identified as belonging to an animal, possibly a sheep.
A party is being planned for Gibbston to celebrate the tiny neighbourhood being named the 2011 Community of the Year during a gala dinner in Auckland on Wednesday night.
A 60-tonne, 24m-long boat, Pacific Jemm, is expected to begin its journey to Queenstown today on the back of an 88-wheeled trailer.
The Wakatipu Aero Club is searching for sponsors to "substantially boost" the club's funds, allowing it to relaunch its scholarship programme.
Champagne corks would have been popping around Gibbston last night as news broke the tiny community had been named the 2011 New Zealand Community of the Year.
A property on the Crown Terrace, near Arrowtown, will become the Bloomsbury Stud (NZ) Ltd's South Island thoroughbred bloodstock base after consent approval from the Overseas Investment Office late last year.
Arrowtown's doors are firmly locked and young people need not apply, says a Wakatipu family whose plan for a development just outside the town has come to nothing.
Former Aucklander Mia Bennie fell in love with the South Island in 1996.
The Arrowtown boundary, adopted by the Queenstown Lakes District Council in October, has been appealed to the Environment Court by Michael Hill's family as the Boxer Hill Trust.
Baby glow-worms have created an explosion of light in caves near Te Anau, following a particularly dry spring - but those wanting to see them will have to act quickly before cannibalistic worms spoil the show.
It took a global internet search, six months of battling and a few anxious moments, but Real Journeys has found a new dragon for TSS Earnslaw.
A rose bred specially to commemorate St John's 125th anniversary was presented to three Queenstown residents this week to recognise the contributions they, and the community, have made to St John Wakatipu.
A lakes district winery is bucking industry trends and investing $2.5 million in capital works as it expands its operations, including its wine tourism venture.
Securing the long-term future of Wanaka Airport is behind proposed zoning changes recently publicly notified by the Queenstown Lakes District Council, senior policy planner Ralph Henderson says.
An estimated $50 million was spent by the 30,000 visitors to the 2010 American Express Queenstown Winter Festival during the 10-day event, new research shows.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council wants to redesignate three forests, totalling more than 647ha in Queenstown and near Arrowtown, to allow for future log harvesting.
If two documents central to the strategic alliance between Queenstown and Auckland airports were released, the public would be able to see "exactly some of the concerns" Air New Zealand held, the airline's deputy chief executive, Norm Thompson, said yesterday.
Former mayor Warren Cooper has questioned why the Queenstown Lakes District Council now wants to consult on the strategic alliance between Queenstown and Auckland Airports, a deal he regards as a "fait accompli" it having been announced in July.
The controversial airport strategic alliance, an issue that has divided the community for the past five months, looks set to dominate today's Queenstown Lakes District Council meeting, the last for 2010.
