THE Queenstown Lakes District Council's strategy committee yesterday recommended the council join Environment Court appeals against the airport's runway end safety area (Resa) designation.
A Queenstown girl aged 7 was in a stable condition in Southland Hospital last night after a metal portable hockey goalframe fell on her yesterday.
A Queenstown Lakes District Council committee will consider the recommendation the council should become a party to Environment Court appeals against Queenstown Airport Corporation's efforts to construct a proposed runway end safety area (resa) estimated to cost about $10 million.
Adventure tourism pioneers Henry van Asch and A. J. Hackett will tandem bungy jump on Wednesday, 20 years to the day after the world's first commercial bungy jump opened at Queenstown's Kawarau Bridge.
Air New Zealand, Shotover Park Ltd and the Wakatipu Trails Trust have joined the chorus of Environment Court appeals against the Queenstown Airport Corporation's decision on a notice of requirement for a designation alteration to provide for the runway end safety area (resa).
Directors of some of the biggest festivals in the Southern Lakes have welcomed the Queenstown Lakes District Council's draft Arts and Events Strategy, but warn the proposed $50,000 discretionary fund in next year's long term council community plan is "inadequate".
Ben Lomond is the huge mountain range that towers higher than Coronet Peak over Queenstown and is one of the most popular summer day-walks, as the summit offers breathtaking 360deg views of the Wakatipu.
Gibbston Valley Station has bought 434ha of land for its proposed multimillion-dollar, multipurpose resort and the public hearing on the development will be held before Christmas.
A last-minute appeal could mean the critical runway end safety area (Resa) at Queenstown Airport is delayed as the case heads to the Environment Court.
The right of individuals to decide when they will visit licensed premises will be taken "all the way till justice is done", the spokesman for the bar group challenging the Queenstown Lakes District Council says as the case heads to the Court of Appeal.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council group recorded a planned operating surplus of $25.4 million for the year ended June 30, ahead of last year's surplus of $20.9 million, but below budget, according to the 2007-08 annual report.
A dazzling line-up of entertainment has been organised or will be hosted by Queenstown Lakes District Council and Lakes Leisure Ltd this summer, with the The Shotover Jet Remarkable Christmas Spectacular taking a starring role.
Shotover Jet unveiled its "brand refresh" and rejuvenated marketing campaign to more than 200 tourism industry and media figures at the operation's headquarters in Arthurs Point yesterday.
Directors of subsidiary companies controlled by the Queenstown Lakes District Council will receive pay rises as a "fair and reasonable reward for managing the assets of the community", Mayor Clive Geddes said yesterday.
While the gargantuan face of the Remarkables is a familiar sight to Queenstown's residents and visitors, the interior of the range, accessed by tracks in the Doolans catchment, is home to a rich diversity of native flora and fauna.
Queenstown Lakes District police will be bolstered by two drink-drive squads over the festive period, one more than last year.
The gateway to one of Te Anau's Great Walks is set for an estimated $300,000 to $400,000 revamp from January to March next year.
The draft masterplan for Pokapu Kawarau Remarkables Centre was presented to the public in late May 2006 and has been hotly debated by councillors and interested parties ever since.
The 30th Jazz Fest was enjoyed by thousands of people and brought international artists and visitors to Queenstown in droves.
Queenstown Airport Corporation says poor weather in September was behind a "flattening and softening" of the domestic market over the past three months.
