The Tourism Industry Association has thrown its support behind Prime Minister and Tourism Minister John Key as he visits Hollywood this week to encourage film studios to choose New Zealand for production and post-production work.
An Arrowtown artist is preparing for her first solo exhibition to the public in Arrowtown Gallery today.
Today 7pm: Queenstown singer-guitarist Brian John Foder plays jazz and blues favourites in the Friday Jazz Club in Les Alpes. Free.
Tickets are selling fast and excitement is building for the all-singing, all-dancing and all-acting spectacular California Dreaming: The Summer of '69, which has its world premiere in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall tomorrow night.
Exterior improvements to the Chester building in central Queenstown will take about a month, the owner, Skyline Enterprises, says.
Gold 150th re-enactment director Victoria Keating, of Queenstown, is inviting all Wakatipu men and women to sign up and help bring Arrowtown's pioneer era history to life on October 20.
A 9-year-old Chinese boy was taken by St John Queenstown ambulance to the Lakes District Hospital for a precautionary assessment yesterday after three vehicles were involved in a crash at Arrow Junction.
The global call for entries to the 2013 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in Queenstown has gone out to violin teachers, artist managers, soloists, associates and the finest 300 music schools.
Young Wakatipu people have the chance to meet at least one and up to four of New Zealand's Olympic heroes when they visit the Youth Booth in Queenstown on Friday.
Artworks by esteemed Southern painters who are now deceased have been released on the market after years in a private Queenstown collection.
Seven expressions of interest have been received by the Queenstown Lakes District Council for the development of 4ha of prime Queenstown real estate at Lakeview.
Sahara McDonald has been crowned the Ultimate Muso of 2012 after a hard-fought contest on Friday night and wins the chance to professionally record one of her original songs in Studio 183.
Originial perspectives of Wakatipu by aspiring and professional film-makers will hit the big screen when the Queenstown Film Society presents its second annual Local Short Film night to the public on Friday.
The largest repository of history and heritage in the Southern Lakes region is financially back in the black after a tough year of restructuring.
Wakatipu primary pupils are invited to experience Arrowtown's gold-mining heritage for themselves by signing up today for the first school holiday programme in years at the Lakes District Museum.
A Scottish star and philanthropist who has sung and plucked her Celtic harp for royalty, prime ministers and presidents is on her way to play her fundraising New Zealand premiere at an art gallery near Arrowtown.
The Black Seeds (from left) keyboard player Nigel Patterson, singer-percussionist Daniel Weetman, guitarist Mike Fabulous, singer-guitarist Barnaby Weir, bass player Tim Jaray, drummer Jarney Murphy and saxophonist Jabin Ward, top the bill for the next Shotover Sunshine Festival on February 9.
Today 7pm: Queenstown singer-pianist-trumpeter Alastair Monteath plays standards for the Friday Jazz Club in Les Alpes. Free.
Air New Zealand says it will not increase its fares between Queenstown and Christchurch when it regains the monopoly on the route following Jetstar's departure in mid-November.
A book celebrating the centenary of the oldest passenger-carrying coal-powered steamship in the southern hemisphere was launched in Queenstown yesterday.
