Three sorts of recommendations are likely to arise from a scheduled review of the Queenstown Lakes District Council and two council-controlled organisations, QLDC chief executive Adam Feeley says.
Queenstown Airport has applied for consent for a building for Aviation Security Services (Avsec) and, if approved, the building could be operational by next winter.
Clearer guidelines are now in place regarding funding given to community organisations by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
The option to lodge and pay for services such as building consents and make dog registration payments online has been highly successful, Lakes Environmental chief executive Hamish Dobbie said.
To capture the drama of what next year's expedition-length Godzone multisport race is like for the athletes, organisers are looking at putting hidden cameras on the course and uploading the footage to the race website.
Funding from various sources has supplied the Wakatipu Wilding Conifer Group with $700,000 to fight wilding pines this summer.
Changes to the Local Government Act and ''almost unparalleled'' growth in the Queenstown Lakes district have made a review of three council-controlled organisations more pressing, the district's mayor says.
After multiple consultations, the Queenstown Lakes District Council passed its Freedom Camping Bylaw yesterday.
The proposed Frankton Marina is a step closer to reality, after Lakes Marina Projects Ltd was officially appointed as preferred developer at a Queenstown Lakes District Council meeting yesterday.
Salvaging 800 seats from Christchurch's demolished Queen Elizabeth II Stadium could save Lakes Leisure in Queenstown over $70,000.
The outdoor stadium seats at the Queenstown Events Centre, managed by Lakes Leisure, were installed during the centre's construction in 1997 and have now come to the end of their life.
Queenstown Airport may have ''no vacancy'' signs out for private jets this summer, because of limited parking space.
Mystery surrounds the closure of a popular Queenstown nightclub, about nine months after the long-time owners, who established the club, sold it to a Wellington entrepreneur.
Queenstown police are looking for a 1.82m Irishman, possibly ginger-haired, who could be named Seamus, following a seemingly unprovoked attack on a Queenstown man.
A proposal to establish a Caples Valley gondola may be revisited after a new report ranked it the highest of 12 options to access Milford Sound.
More than $7000 was raised on Sunday from Queenstown Plunket's Wakatipu Garden Tour.
Hamish Garrick has the Winter Olympics in his sights and is working hard to get there.
The continuing economic climate and difficult trading times for Queenstown District Council-owned camping grounds could continue into the next financial year, holiday park manager Greg Hartshorne says.
Ideal conditions greeted cyclists in the Patagonia 8hrs@Jacks mountain bike event on Saturday, with the winner of the individual men's division completing 19 laps of the 6.5km track at Jacks Point.
What is the difference between 48 and 1000? For Vance Boyd, of Kiwi Discovery, it is 25 years.
Having their heads shaved next to planes arriving and departing is an experience Queenstown air traffic controllers Ben Macmillan and Andrew Turner can now tick off.
