Despite a "difficult" 12 months in the financial market, the Cromwell-based Central Lakes Trust had recorded a $227,000 surplus to the year ended September, trust chief executive Paul Allison said.
The developers of a 200ha piece of land neighbouring Lake Hayes off State Highway 6 at Ladies Mile have now applied for land use consent to erect a recreational facility on the site.
Auctions may become more common in Queenstown because it is becoming more difficult to set prices for property, says Queenstown spokesman for the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand Adrian Snow.
The "true colours" of the Arrowtown Autumn Festival will be shown next year when the annual event celebrates its 25th anniversary with a documentary on its first 24 years, Going For Gold, funded by the festival society.
Tributes and a few tears flowed as friends and colleagues gathered in Queenstown on Friday to farewell David Kennedy as he left his position as Destination Queenstown chief executive, bound for Ngai Tahu Tourism.
Rubbish has turned into "rustic charm" at Gibbston following a project between the Gibbston Community Association and the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Initiatives in this year's Macpac 24 Hours of Southern Traverse were designed to encourage the growth of adventure racing in New Zealand, race director Geoff Hunt said.
The owner of a development near Lake Hayes is planning to spend about $3 million helping to save a rare skink.
The next stage of Queenstown's Gorge Rd upgrade will begin today, a month later than expected.
A plan change hearing for Frankton Flats, in Queenstown, is due to resume today, with eight new reports from the Queenstown Lakes District Council to be considered over two days.
Two Queenstown men's dreams of operating their own adventure kayaking business on Lake Wakatipu is one step closer to reality following a recent meeting of the Queenstown Lakes District Council community services committee.
Queenstown residents will have the chance to put their election questions to representatives of six major political parties ahead of November's general election during the Otago Daily Times Queenstown Chamber of Commerce Great Debate later this month.
Three men in Queenstown who all decided to drive after having too many drinks are scheduled to appear in the Queenstown District Court on October 20.
The cost of fighting the Department of Conservation's controversial Milford Sound air access allocation process was about $10,000, one operator said yesterday.
Questions were being asked yesterday about why the Coastguard Queenstown unit - Queenstown Airport Rescue - was not called to assist at the scene of a fatal incident on the Kawarau River on Thursday.
Kawarau Jet's commercial operations in the Queenstown area resumed yesterday morning for the first time since Thursday's fatal jet-boat crash.
Gibbston is likely to get a community reserve before Christmas.
Queenstown's cemetery has received a second lease of life with the Queenstown Lakes District Council community services committee approving extensions to the area.
Shock waves rippled through Queenstown this week when Destination Queenstown chief executive David Kennedy announced he had resigned, bound for Ngai Tahu Tourism. He talks to bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh about his time with the organisation . . . and the future.
Modifications have been made to the proposed changes for the Te Anau basin in the Southland District Council plan, SDC resource management planner David Falconer said.
