Aspiring and professional artists from around the South will be hoping their work has what it takes to win up to $2500 in cash at the Locations Art Awards 2012 prizegiving tonight.
Queenstown is about to become the impulse weekend break of choice for even more Australians with the introduction of additional cheap direct flights, starting in less than a week.
A pair of Scottish immigrants are one thread in the story of a nation told in an acclaimed piece of musical theatre to be staged in Arrowtown this month.
Wakatipu High School's musical talent continues to dazzle peers around the South, as big band Best Served Chilled won the best band award and two awards for individual merit at the annual Southland Secondary Schools Jazz Festival last week.
Some towns have cats stuck up trees, but Queenstown yesterday had a parapenter.
The first learn-to-sail lesson was held by the Wakatipu Yacht Club on Sunday, but organisers say young people can still get on board the programme.
Queenstown cyclists Kimberley Percival and Rachel Kennedy shed tears of joy and relief when they crossed the finish line at Cape Reinga, after pedalling 2301km from Bluff in aid of the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand.
The earsplitting roar of finely tuned engines and the smell of exhaust and warm rubber confirmed without question where the Fuchs Coronet Peak Hill Climb was being held on Saturday.
Parents remarked to each other on Saturday the Cultural Festival at KingsView School was one of the best school fairs they had attended.
The second annual celebration of diversity in the state-integrated Christian school in Frankton was estimated to have raised more than twice the amount raised last year.
The winding access road ascending to the Coronet Peak skifield between Queenstown and Arrowtown presents a challenge to motorists whatever the season, never mind more competitive drivers in supercharged vehicles racing against the clock after a snowstorm.
With Rugby World Cup 2011 visitors removed from the equation, New Zealand's international arrival figures remain positive, Tourism New Zealand says.
Crystallised objectives in a new progress report, a revamped website and a renewed push to engage Queenstown Lakes district residents underscore the ongoing Shaping Our Future initiative, proponents say.
Dean Chiplin, Nicola Dudley, Dylan O'Connor and Witney Middendorf took first-place honours in their categories for the 13km Queenstown Hill Challenge, while Ryan Mawhinney was first in the 4km hill challenge on Saturday.
Visitors to New Zealand remain "highly satisfied" with their experience, but the number of people "very likely" to recommend the country to others continues to fall, Tourism New Zealand says.
Actors wanted, no experience necessary, for the fourth annual popular promenade production by Remarkable Theatre during the Summerdaze Festival.
A joint marketing campaign by Air New Zealand, Destination Queenstown and Queenstown Airport is telling Aucklanders and people flying into Auckland from overseas they can fly direct to Queenstown almost every two hours this summer.
A virtual festival of rock is about to converge on Queenstown, with homegrown metalheads Rules of Addiction the headlining act.
Australia's most wanted comedian, Chopper, is about to give Arrowtown his own unique perspective on the world by bringing a big pad of paper listing everyone and everything he has an issue with.
A 12-year legal battle over the use of a property in Wanaka, which has so far cost Queenstown Lakes district ratepayers more than $740,000 in legal fees, shows no sign of ending.
Kingsview School pupils say they are excited to be producing what they say will be a bigger and better Cultural Festival for the community to enjoy on Saturday.
