Philip Chandler

Aiming to provide quality, affordable housing on the Frankton Flats, a Queenstown-based developer is launching a 226-home development next week — and hoping to have his first 63 homes completed by...

Best take an empty stomach along to Queenstown’s Mitre 10 Mega this Saturday, because you’ll be rendering St John a great service.

Buoyed by a great home win over Cromwell last weekend, the Arrowtown Premiers rugby side takes some confidence into its White Horse Cup challenge against undefeated Upper Clutha in Wanaka tonight.

Tonight's First Thursdays Quarterly Queenstown CBD art gallery ‘crawl’ features for the first time a satellite event.

Twenty studio units for sale beside Frankton Arm Tavern redefine affordability in Queenstown’s high-priced property landscape.

The late Jim Ryan, "a stalwart for all things Arrowtown", is now being remembered with a memorial bench in front of the town’s library.

An Aucklander who regularly flies in and out of Queenstown Airport is appalled he couldn’t fly his stepson to Dunedin for an urgent medical specialist’s appointment over Easter.

Legendary Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh left lasting impressions on at least two locals late last week.

Speedcubing took over the Queenstown Memorial Centre last weekend as the South Island speedcubing competition was held in the resort for the first time.

After starting as a cross country specialist, Wakatipu High Year 11 student James Weber’s ended his first season on the track with two South Island titles.

After a "scrappy" 22-20 win over bottom-placed Matakanui in Omakau last weekend for their first win of the season, the Arrowtown rugby side will be very keen to notch their first home win when they...

Queenstowner Tom Kelly will be hoping it’ll be third time lucky when he competes in his first overseas-based world jetboat marathon starting next Saturday in the United States.

Two former Queenstown high school students and a one-time local preschooler were part of a 4x100-metre Otago men’s relay team who won gold at the recent Australian athletics champs in Adelaide.

A Queenstown brewery producing Japan’s best-known alcoholic beverage has become the only one outside Japan certified to offer a Master of Sake course.

Some of the world’s most inspiring action, environmental, cultural and adventure films screen at Queenstown Memorial Centre next Wednesday and Thursday as the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival...

Former Canadian Jane Paterson says Queenstown’s been the making of her. She tells Philip Chandler, over a libation in a new wine bar she’s invested in, why she’s got involved in so many local...

Two locals have launched a buyers’ agency in Arrowtown, helping out-of-town, mostly high-end buyers find their dream Southern Lakes home.

Queenstown's champion SkyCity Stampede side’s supplying no fewer than eight Ice Blacks for the Division 2 Group B world ice hockey champs starting in Sofia, Bulgaria, this coming Monday.

Already well-known as a longtime guitarist with The Verlaines, Paul Winders has added to Arrowtown’s amazing pool of talented musos since moving to the township. But he’s also impacted the lives of...