The Wakatipu Wilding Conifer Control Group, the Department of Conservation (Doc) and the Queenstown Lakes District Council spent more than $637,000 on the war against wilding pines in the year ended April 30.
The results of the inaugural Wakatipu Youth Trust beginners' photography course in the Youth Booth are to be displayed in the foyer of the Queenstown Lakes District Council building.
Gunshots ring out of the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall every evening this week, but luckily it is because Remarkable Theatre is busy rehearsing The Female of the Species, right up until opening night tomorrow.
A former Queenstown Primary School pupil turned international pop star is cracking open beer with James Bond.
The $3.1 million upgrade of the Queenstown Memorial Hall is on track to meet its deadline of December 21 to accommodate the rugby sevens tournament, and to be finished entirely on February 28.
Young solo singer-guitarist Sahara McDonald and singer-guitarist duo Lucy and Izzy will compete to become the 2012 Ultimate Muso against youth bands the Alpine Effect, the Collective Me and the Fletcherz on Friday.
The trained actress in the pivotal role of the vengeance-fuelled student in The Female of the Species has been juggling work at a burger joint, finishing at 4.30am, with rehearsals for the play.
Queenstown Primary, St Joseph's and Wakatipu High schools and more than 2000 central Queenstown customers are expected to be covered by the Government's ultrafast broadband network by July next year.
Year 6 pupil Elijah McDonald sang a pop medley and strummed his guitar to victory in the fourth annual QPS Has Talent competition on Friday.
Tourism New Zealand chief executive Kevin Bowler says he is "highly impressed" by the depiction of New Zealand as the "home of Middle-earth" in the second trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, released last week.
Queenstown business operators, educators and health providers have been challenged by a Government minister to maximise the opportunities to come from having "ultrafast broadband" everywhere in the resort within eight years.
A driver and his wife from Auckland were taken by St John ambulance to the Lakes District Hospital with minor injuries after they were involved in a car crash near Arrowtown yesterday.
Distinctive and graphic rural works by Mike Petre are proving popular among collectors even before his latest exhibition officially opens in Milford Galleries Queenstown today.
Renowned German organist Martin Rein (pictured) will perform a recital on the 138-year-old pipe organ in St Peter's Anglican Church, Queenstown, on Thursday.
New Zealand's wheeled heritage will be on display when the 120 vintage trucks taking part in the 2012 South Island Classic Commercials Tour thunder through Otago.
Today 11.45am, 4.30pm, 6.45pm and 9pm: Two Little Boys, a New Zealand comedy film made by Otago film-makers and shot down the road in Southland, is screened in Reading Cinemas Queenstown four times a day until Wednesday.
Queenstown civic, tourism and aviation chiefs are welcoming extra direct transtasman flights announced by Jetstar this week to the growing portfolio of flights to the resort by all airlines.
Despite acting in such dark material as Dracula and Jack the Ripper, Queenstown lawyer Phena Byrne says she loves playing comedic roles and her new favourite is in The Female of the Species.
Remarkable Theatre players (from left) David Cantwell, Phena Byrne, Rebecca Curran, David Oakley, Andrew Edgar and Jules Molloy rehearse a scene from The Female of the Species , to be staged in the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall on September 27-29.
Queenstown would make a perfect stop on any royal visit, Destination Queenstown chief executive Graham Budd tells James Beech.
