Renowned Arrowtown landscape painter Graham Brinsley, who died last Friday aged 60 after courageously battling cancer, was also, fittingly, a very colourful character.
A Queenstown property owner who’s triumphed over the council in an Environment Court case is querying its competency — and doesn’t believe it should keep secret the costs it’s paying out to him.
The wind’s so frequently a curse, but the organisers of the second annual Deepsouth Downwind are hoping for particularly windy conditions on Lake Whakatipu this Saturday.
If local knowledge counts, Arrowtowner Benje Patterson and Queenstowner Maureen Stachowicz should be contenders to win the headline 85km race at The Wild mountain running event this weekend.
The hotel chain behind Queenstown’s Holiday Inn, above Frankton Rd, has turned its lake-facing dining venue into an Italian restaurant, Grazie, following the "roaring success" of its first outlet...
Whakatipu Wildlife Trust (WWT), whose predator control efforts are aimed at increasing native bird and insect life, is crowing over a $10,000 donation from a Queenstown brewery.
Tributes are pouring in for country music icon Reg McTaggart, who died at his Arrowtown home last month, after having lived in the Wakatipu for roughly 50 years.
Renowned Kiwi singer-songwriter Marlon Williams has contributed to Maori artwork etched into precast concrete panels that are being installed this week alongside Queenstown’s CBD bypass.
Construction's in full swing on a hospitality and town square development, called Junction, that is designed to form the centre stage of Frankton’s Queenstown Central shopping centre.
Three-time ex-New Zealand women’s downhill mountain bike champ, Alanna Columb, returned to competitive sport this month — five years after an horrific bike crash almost claimed her life.
‘‘Can you find Hare here?’’ This line’s from an introductory peek-a-boo book, Here is Hare, written for tiny tots by Queenstown children’s author/illustrator Laura Shallcrass that’s being published tomorrow.
Tributes are pouring in for country music icon Reg McTaggart, who died at his Arrowtown home on November 18, after having lived in the Whakatipu for roughly 50 years. Amazingly, for the first 30...
For 111 years, Queenstown’s famous Earnslaw steamship’s ferried farm animals and more latterly only tourists/locals, but next March she’ll be the springboard for a swimming race.