A British department store is now broadcasting its latest national attention-grabbing and tear-jerking television commercial, which was shot near Queenstown, as part of its $11.7 million Christmas campaign.
The Kingston Flyer will host not only its first wedding but its first same-sex wedding in January, during a busy summer schedule of events for the vintage passenger steam train.
Remarkable Theatre has teamed up with fellow amateur dramatists and thespians in Wales to pool entries in a novel short play writing competition.
New Zealand has won the "Favourite Country - Worldwide" award at the Telegraph Travel Awards held at the ME Hotel in London on Wednesday night.
Queenstown Primary School pupils (from left) Colin Kirkpatrick (12), Hayato Yoneto (11), Nicholas Clark (10) and Ben Soto (11) test the human gyro exhibit at the Fonterra Science Roadshow in the school hall on Wednesday.
Construction continues on a showroom for 50 new and pre-owned Toyota and Holden vehicles and a 12-bay workshop in Frankton.
Provocative Christchurch artist Heather Straka will discuss how cultural imagery has been appropriated into Western painting before opening her new exhibition in Arrowtown next Friday.
A gifted Queenstown Primary School pupil is well on the way to achieving his ambition of becoming a doctor by amassing a string of top results in transtasman exams.
The South's film office chief says becoming the sole New Zealand representative on an influential global film organisation "extends the reach and ability to tap into the best practices of film offices around the world".
Queenstown Lakes Mayor and Wakatipu health watchdog leader Vanessa van Uden says the diagnostic CT scanner destined for Dunstan Hospital in Clyde will be an asset for Queenstown Lakes residents as well.
Pupils and teachers from Remarkables Primary School and KingsView School took the plunge for the first time on Monday when AJ Hackett Bungy held its fifth annual school open day on its 24th birthday.
One of the actors in musical theatre production Home need only think back to his own family history to channel the gamut of emotions felt by historical immigrants to New Zealand.
Antipodean Light (2012) is one of eight mixed media on paper, oil-on-canvas and acrylic-on-board paintings by Masterton artist Paul Martinson to feature in "Natural Light", his second solo exhibition in Milford Galleries Queenstown.
The rescue of two men stranded in the fast-flowing Kawarau River yesterday was yet another "lesson for everyone" on the waterways to wear a life jacket, Queenstown Lakes District Harbour Master Marty Black says.
Primary schoolchildren throughout the South are striking it rich in education with record attendances of the exhibition "Gold is Where You Find It: 150 Years of Gold in Central Otago" at the Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown.
A slice of heaven is about to be created in bustling downtown Queenstown.
A man and a woman were air-lifted to Dunedin Hospital tonight after two cars collided in the Kawarau Gorge about 5.30pm.
A 62-year-old Queenstown man was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash on the Shotover Delta in heavy rain last night.
A 21-year-old Queenstown man walked away uninjured after his parapent crashed into a pine tree more than 40m above the ground this morning.
Southern tourism leaders will join their counterparts from around the country today on a fact-finding mission to China, the country which emerged this week as New Zealand's second-most important tourism market after Australia.
