Tracey Roxburgh

Queenstown Primary School pupil Alice Moran (11) with her entry in The Great Bayleys Art Competition Awards, held in Queenstown last night.

There are going to be a lot of Australians here," Qantas regional general manager Grant Lilly said yesterday, announcing additional transtasman services direct to Queenstown from Melbourne this summer.

NZSKI will make a decision today on whether Coronet Peak will be able to open as planned on Saturday.

The American Express Queenstown Winter Festival - which starts this month - has been ranked one of the world's Top 10 "must see" festivals by an Australian website.

A robotic ski tuner will be taking the overnight shift at one of New Zealand's longest-established ski shops this winter, following a $270,000 investment in the Montana Snow Cruiser Max.

By day, Erin Gray is a solicitor at Berry and Co in Queenstown, but she swaps her business suit for a firefighting uniform on a regular basis, most recently last Saturday when she climbed Auckland's Sky Tower in record time, winning the women's race.

A year ago, two Queenstown residents sat around a campfire in Australia and talked about how great it would be to "check out South America" on motorbikes.

The 2010 Bhangra night, organised by Mantra Restaurant, went off without a hitch on Saturday night.

In November 2008, Dick McArthur fell 10m down a cliff at his Alexandra home, leaving him a tetraplegic. His daughter Fiona, of Queenstown, had no idea then the effect his life-changing experience would have on her as well.