Coronet Peak should enhance its avalanche hazard signage and fencing in the upper Greengates area, following the death of Queenstown snowboarder Ryan Manu Campbell in an avalanche outside the ski area boundary almost a year ago.
The 2009 winner of the Michael Hill International Violin Competition will perform at the sold-out Brunch at The Hills, and then join a world-class New Zealand pianist for a recital at the Queenstown Memorial Hall, both on Sunday.
Limited edition prints by two of the five top New Zealand artists commissioned to celebrate the 2010 Fifa World Cup in South Africa have gone on display in two Queenstown galleries.
More than 40,000 visitors and 20,000 locals will turn Queenstown into the party capital of the Pacific for the next 10 days, with the launch today of the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival.
Jeremy Bell, the student representative on the Wakatipu High School board of trustees, believes pupils need to achieve greater academic excellence than before if they want a place at university. James Beech talks to the Year 13 pupil.
Macalister Todd Phillips partner and barrister Dale Lloyd joins the Wakatipu High School board as one of the new parent trustees. James Beech talks to the mother of three.
New fees and charges for Queenstown Lakes district recreational clubs will come into effect on October 1, but venue charges and the rates applied to charitable, standard and commercial users will be reviewed in March 2011 after some councillors expressed concern about the policy being rushed through.
ASB bank staff at Remarkables Park Town Centre have hit the ground running to raise money for the annual national "Flash-a-Light for St John" appeal this week.
Queenstown Art Society aims to introduce thousands of Winter Festival visitors to the talents of Wakatipu artists with an exhibition opening on Friday.
Up to 200 national and international players who "know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em" will vie for an anticipated prize pool of $450,000, at the second annual New Zealand Poker Tour, at Skycity Queenstown Casino, next month.
Queenstown Medical Centre doctor Kathryn Smith is one of the new parent trustees on the board of Wakatipu High School.
Granting a Queenstown bar's appeal to use its outdoor deck and exceed the district plan noise limit by 10dBA would be "an ad hoc and isolated answer to a wider problem being experienced by the people of Queenstown", the Environment Court says.
Airborne laser scanning of targeted areas in the Queenstown Lakes district - starting with Queenstown Bay - could help local authorities predict the extent of flood events down to 25cm and warn potentially affected property owners.
Queenstown Lakes district councillor Vanessa van Uden was the only trustee to be re-elected to the new Wakatipu High School board last month. The first person to officially announce her candidacy for the Queenstown Lakes mayoralty, Ms van Uden has 14- and 15-year-old daughters at the school. In the third part of a 10-part series, Ms van Uden talks to James Beech.
Artist Tony Cribb will attend the opening of his first exhibition in Queenstown at an invitation-only launch at Artbay Gallery, on Thursday, June 24, before it opens to the public the following day.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council's policy of "learning to live with flooding" is unacceptable and "shortchanges the community", a public forum on the resort's late April-early May flood heard last night.
The preferred artist of Sir Edmund Hillary, who was recently awarded a Queen's Service Medal for services to the arts and is the newly commissioned Wakatipu heritage artist, is the latest artist in residence working at Artbay Gallery, in Queenstown.
In the second in our series of interviews with the new board of trustees at Wakatipu High School, golf course designer and former golf professional Greg Turner says mixed age groups in classrooms recognises that youths develop emotionally, physically and intellectually at different rates. James Beech talks to the man who will present the board's new communications strategy during their second monthly meeting today.
In the first of a series of one-on-one interviews with all 10 new members of the Wakatipu High School board of trustees, chairman Alistair Nicholson pledges greater communication between the board and the community.
