Airline passengers were encouraged to use onboard toilet facilities before landing at Queenstown Airport after a burst water main cut supplies to most of Frankton, a Queenstown Lakes District Council sub-committee heard this week.
Funk-fuelled collective Tahuna Breaks play both Queenstown and Wanaka next week as part of their tour for new album Black Brown And White.
Showbiz Queenstown will be hoping audiences ask for more when it stages the revival version of Oliver! in May next year.
Maintaining the quality of roads in the Queenstown Lakes district got tougher yesterday, with the announcement that the QLDC will have a $750,000 shortfall in its roading budget.
Getting flight updates and whiling away time before departures are easier for passengers now 16 public computers have been installed at Queenstown Airport.
Tenders for the $1 million upgrade of upgrade of Church St and Searle Lane are expected to go out this week with a likely caveat that contractors will accommodate peak summer trade.
A director of the jet-boat company facing an Environment Court appeal over sightseeing trips consent approvals has rejected claims the whole decision should have been thrown out.
Hosting an international airport security conference in Queenstown next year will keep the airport abreast of evolving technologies and is a major win for the resort, the airport chief says.
A consolidation of scenic flight aircraft operations by Real Journeys Ltd and Totally Tourism Ltd should mean just as many passengers to Milford Sound from Queenstown, but with fewer aircraft and landings.
A Queenstown poet credits an adult education programme supported by the Norman Jones Foundation for changing his life for the better and for his flourishing literary career.
Construction of a $5 million, 90m safety extension of the main runaway at Queenstown Airport will begin next month, using 760,000cu m of fill donated by neighbouring Remarkables Park.
A polar bear mascot is being used by Alpine Aqualand to help deliver water safety messages to Wakatipu children this summer, and a competition has opened to choose the bear's name.
Aspirations for New Zealand becoming the world's first eco-friendly film-producing nation have taken a step forward with a Queenstown Lakes District Council initiative being rolled out across the country.
Repairs to a historic stone wall that holds up the pack trail between Arrowtown and Macetown have finished, but volunteers say they are "desperately short" of $30,000 to complete the all-weather trail.
The first tenant to open at Terrace Junction is banking on environmental sustainability with its fit-out by a Queenstown construction company.
The Upbeats, an inventive drum 'n bass duo from Wellington, will reveal their long-awaited third album, Big Skeleton, at Subculture tonight as part of their eight-date national tour. James Beech caught up with Dylan Jones and Jeremy Glenn ahead of tonight's gig.
A former Dunedin College of Education director says New Zealand teachers should be wary of packaged programmes that are designed to be read out like scripts in the classroom.
A Queenstown police appeal against the Queenstown Lakes District Licensing Agency's granting of a special licence for Revolver to host a music festival over the Easter weekend has been declined by the Liquor Licensing Authority.
The Intergalactic Disco Movement will play an opening set at Revolver this summer after the Wakatipu High School band was crowned the 2009 Ultimate Muso in the grand final on Friday night.
A greast hotel receptionist needs to be approachable, pleasant and diplomatic and must be able to multitask, say the two Queenstown finalists competing to be named the best in New Zealand.
