Guy Williams

The Queenstown Lakes District Council will underwrite half the shortfall in the cost of extending Shotover Country Primary School's hall to accommodate a full-sized indoor court.

If a major flood threatens Queenstown, it will be up to individuals and businesses to be prepared.

A Southland high school principal has expressed ''absolute confidence'' in the leader of a tramping party after a pupil went missing in the Greenstone and Caples Valleys north of Queenstown this week.

The smell from the Victoria Flats landfill is ''not acceptable'', and gas generated at the site has increased in the past two years, a Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) consultant says.

Glenorchy Air co-owner Robert Rutherford says he and company staff are ''humbled'' by the support they have received since senior pilot Ray Crow was killed in the crash of one of its aircraft last month.

Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden will sign a sister city agreement with the Chinese city of Hangzhou next month.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council says the public needs to provide evidence that a ''high level of crime and disorder'' will result if a stricter alcohol ban bylaw is not approved.

Remarkables Park Ltd (RPL) has put its consent application for a convention centre in Frankton on hold while it seeks approval from a Queenstown Lakes District Council review panel for a major redesign.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has grudgingly taken responsibility for an error in rates notices sent out last week.

Two parcels of privately owned land have been added to the area the Queenstown Lakes District Council is proposing to rezone as town centre.