Commercial rafting trips on the Shotover River may resume next week after about 30,000 tonnes of rock, which had threatened to slip down a steep cliff for more than a month, finally gave way yesterday.
Lives may be lost as a "direct result" of Mobil NZ's decision to stop providing helicopter fuel supplies at Milford Sound, Southland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group co-ordinator Neil Cruickshank says.
An 18-year-old Australian tourist got more than he bargained for when he attempted to leave Queenstown on Wednesday afternoon with a snowboard he had reported stolen.
The Queenstown District Court has been evacuated this morning after a suspicious package was received on the first floor of the court building.
A world-leading avalanche control programme at Milford has won the "highway version of an Olympic gold medal" in the 2008 International Road Federation (IRF) Achievement Awards.
The Queenstown District Court was the scene of a full-scale emergency services call-out yesterday morning, after a suspicious package was received in the court's administration area, on the first floor of the Stanley St building.
Queenstown without the adrenaline? Sounds like a contradiction in terms, but Destination Queenstown says the travel bible Lonely Planet got it right in its latest edition, released this week, by emphasising there is more to the resort town than its "adventure capital" tag suggests.
The North Otago electricity lines company, Network Waitaki, is now back under full local control - and that should bring financial benefits for its customers, Waitaki Power Trust chairwoman Helen Brookes said yesterday.
Efforts to dislodge the slip above the Shotover River - estimated to comprise 200,000cu m of rock - appear to be having the desired effect, after significant movement was triggered yesterday.
Some of the biggest names in ski racing will be in action on the slopes of Coronet Peak this week during the Japanese FIS races at the Rocky Gully Race Arena.
On the final day of a hearing discussing a proposed plan change to help with affordable community housing in the Lakes District, Remarkables Park Ltd (RPL) counsel John Young said his client opposed the plan change on the basis of "jurisdictional, economic and planning grounds".
More houses were sold in Queenstown last month than in June and sales were also up 19% on July last year.
An ambitious project to build a $170 million tunnel linking Queenstown and Milford Sound is "making progress", according to its developers.
It may have taken motorists by surprise and caused havoc at Queenstown Airport and on main roads, but the snowfall in the resort on Thursday brought smiles to the faces of skiers and snowboarders yesterday.
The Shotover River slip stayed put yesterday, despite having 25,000 litres of water pumped on to it, but it is now hoped frosts will finish the job and dislodge the rock.
A planner recommends a resource consent application to subdivide a 21ha lot on the slopes of Bendemeer Hill, east of Lake Hayes, into four allotments be refused.
After five years of consultation and discussion about expansion plans for Kingston, residents can expect even more consultation before a joint venture plan change takes effect.
Former University of Otago student and extreme sports enthusiast Sam Hazledine, of Queenstown, is one of 18 finalists in the 2008 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, announced yesterday.
A "highly ambitious proposal with far-reaching effects", the potential costs of which were "beyond comprehension", was criticised during the second day of a hearing in Queenstown yesterday.
The lack of affordable housing in Queenstown is affecting the district's tourism and workforce, a hearing was told in the resort yesterday.
