With more than 200 eligible families seeking the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust's help to find an affordable home, the trust is ''not at all put off'' by strongly worded submissions opposing its plan for an affordable housing development in Arrowtown.
The main streets of Queenstown were roads travelled by a unicorn, zombies and ice hockey players on Saturday and yesterday Lake Wakatipu hosted a winning performance by an Olympic swimmer.
The steady stream of skiers and snowboarders who scrambled up the Remarkables on Saturday enjoyed a powder day on the first day of the skifield's season.
With a lower snow base layer of 75cm, the Remarkables skifield opened for the 2013 season today.
Tracks are being made towards a new Wakatipu high school and other planned developments.
There are some Arrowtown residents who fundamentally oppose an affordable housing development in the small village, but others who made submissions against a housing proposal are being offered a compromise.
The executive of the Queenstown Lakes District Council has a new look, with chief executive Adam Feeley confirming three of his eight senior managers will come from outside the council.
The upgraded Earnslaw Park toilet block will be finished by tomorrow, ahead of the 39th annual Winter Festival.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has put its foot down concerning a request from a developer of a subdivision asking for a private road to be vested in the council and incorporated into public road maintenance.
In this week's Join The Club, Christina McDonald talks to members of the Wakatipu Spinners, Weavers and Allied Craft group.
The Southern Stampede came back fighting to level its weekend National Ice Hockey League double-header against the Dunedin Thunder, in Dunedin.
Coronet Peak's on-piste snow base was topped up with some fresh layers of powder snow over the weekend after the field had been dealing with warm weather and no natural snowfalls since early June.
Construction of the Milford Dart tunnel would not cost Fiordland its World Heritage status, Conservation Minister Nick Smith said yesterday.
Queenstown, even with its ice and snow, has proved irresistible for at least one Australian import spotted during the seasonal surge of non-native visitors arriving in the resort.
Left-over transport funding has allowed the Queenstown Lakes District Council to advance the first stage of its central business district bypass.
A petition opposing an affordable housing development in Arrowtown will be presented to the Queenstown Lakes District Council during Thursday's public consultation with the community.
In this week's Join The Club, Christina McDonald talks to members of Queenstown Patchworkers and Quilters.
Having secured three wins and an overtime loss out of four games so far, the Southern Stampede is aiming for double success this weekend against its closest rival, the Dunedin Thunder.
Extendinh its red-crowned kakariki enclosure has earned the Kiwi Birdlife Park an industry award at the New Zealand branch of the Zoo Aquarium Association conference held in Dunedin last month.
As the 2013 ski season opens at Coronet Peak today, the ski industry and Queenstown businesses are predicting a bumper winter with plenty of early-season snow and a record number of international flights bringing tourists to the resort.
