St Joseph's School board of trustees parent representative Pauline Copland is concerned science, technology and the arts will have less focus in the future of national education.
Endurance against extreme odds and astonishing footage captured by daredevil film-makers are the hallmarks of the two long films selected for the Queenstown Adventure Film Festival, director Kirsten Nicholl says.
Young Wakatipu singers who have the "X factor" are urged to audition for a musical featuring classic David Bowie songs.
St Joseph's School assistant principal Kirsten Moore says teaching in London for four years has given her "perspective on the fact we are lucky with what resources we have and we should be encouraged to use the environment for education outside the classroom."
The American Express Queenstown Winter Festival was hailed as the best-marketed event in New Zealand over the past year and boosted its year-on-year media profile by 62%, despite a cut in its marketing budget.
The $550,000 upgrade of Church St and Searle Lane in Queenstown is expected to finish this week after starting four months ago and the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is taking the opportunity to change the angle of parking bays on Marine Pde as "an extra".
Charity organisation Women in Touch is hosting the Orphans Aid International Quiz Night again this year and is aiming to match or beat last year's total of $1500.
Wakatipu High School jazz musicians won gold for the first time at the Southern Jam Youth Jazz Festival, which concluded in Marlborough, on Saturday.
Fire risks to residences in rural areas were recognised, and ways of dealing with the huge amount of information collected about issues in rural planning were discussed, at a Queenstown Lakes District Council subcommittee meeting last month.
Entries opened this week for the 2010 Air New Zealand Wine Awards, with all 2010 vintage wines entered required to be 100% sustainably produced.
How Wakatipu residents can earn qualifications for their efforts in building sustainable practice in the workplace will be revealed at the community update on the Queenstown Lakes Sustainable Business Programme today.
New works by a Raglan artist best known for using surfboard foam blanks as his medium have been snapped up by a Singapore collector even before his exclusive exhibition opens in Queenstown.
Teaching Christian values benefits New Zealand society, St Joseph's School board of trustees proprietor's representative Margaret Young believes. The former teacher's aid for special needs children tells James Beech that National Standards are only one method of assessing education.
Photographers of all abilities will be able to learn from the masters during the judging of the prestigious Iris Awards, when the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photography (NZIPP) holds its Infocus conference in Queenstown next month.
Children's author Kyle Mewburn, of Millers Flat, (left), next to principal Debbie Dickson, reads from his new book to Remarkables Primary School pupils, after he officially opened their new information centre and library on Friday.
The quaint and sage world of the BBC's popular television programme Antiques Roadshow will be skewered for laughs in an improvised comedy show in Arrowtown this month.
Rural resorts cause more impact on countryside amenity than the proposed Speargrass Flat campus will, St Joseph's School board of trustees proprietor's representative Phil Wilson says. In the latest interview with all members of the board, the father of five and solicitor tells James Beech the new school will take pressure off the Queenstown school and offer a Catholic education to Arrowtown, Lakes Hayes Estate and Frankton.
The Arthur's Point Protection Society and the Queenstown Lakes District Council are to enter into mediation over how to measure helicopter noise within general noise standards.
Public access to the Lake Wakatipu foreshore at Twelve Mile Delta Recreation Reserve will be doubled, once a $500,000 upgrade is finished by the Department of Conservation (Doc) Wakatipu area office in time for the summer season.
They don't need walking or feeding, but they are well behaved - nine life-size sculptures of dogs made from steel and corrugated iron go on display at Milford Galleries Queenstown from tomorrow.