Three members of a Queenstown family competing in next month’s world gold-panning champs in Spain hope to replicate the success they’ve enjoyed at national gold-panning champs.
A solo Queenstown stationer/printer — competing against the ‘big boys’ — has once again struck gold at the recent New Zealand Pride in Print Awards, held in Auckland.
The former co-owner of successful Queenstown hospo business Surreal is nowadays happy mentoring businesses, for free, for not-for-profit organisation Business Mentors New Zealand (BMNZ).
A documentary by two Kiwis about changes to a Japanese coastal village that was formerly a bustling whaling town is being screened at Queenstown’s Silky Otter cinema next Sunday, July 27, at 7pm.
In the ‘bubble’ that is the Queenstown property market, with our population ever rising, residential values continue increasing despite it still being a buyers’ market.
Leading the Wakatipu Prems rugby side on to the field for his 100th game, there was no one prouder at the Queenstown Rec Ground last Saturday than hooker Phil Kingsbury.
He may have run a humble burger joint, and much later an even more humble pie shop, but Mike Burke, who has died aged 78, was one of Queenstown’s great characters over the 25 years he lived in town.
The godfather of Central Otago wine, former Queenstowner Alan Brady, had waited 38 years to open one of the earliest bottles ever produced in this renowned wine region’s modern history.