James Beech

Jetstar says it may fly between Australia and Queenstown more frequently as demand continues to grow.

Becoming the new principal of Wakatipu High School "feels like coming home", Steve Hall said on his first day in charge.

Paul O'Connor says he learned more about leadership in one year as acting principal of Wakatipu High School than he did in 17 years as a principal elsewhere.

One of the most dangerous intersections in the Queenstown Lakes district has been prised out of the tangled web of Frankton Flats plan changes by the Environment Court, clearing the way for construction of a new roundabout for a modified road layout with path and cycleway.

A boy born blind demonstrated his new skills with a white cane yesterday to the president of the largest service club organisation in the world.

Southern Lakes vistas play a key role in the first stage of the new global "100% Middle-earth, 100% Pure New Zealand" campaign, which draws on The Hobbit films, Tourism New Zealand says.

The annual Classic Hits Winery Tour will return to the Wakatipu with an all New Zealand line-up of acts "all right up there in their field", organisers say.

Arrowtown School pupil Beatrice Onions (13) says she is "pretty proud and it's an amazing feeling" to have won the intermediate category of the Puffin Short Story Awards.

Heavy bass lines, catchy melodies and heavenly harmonies have been created by producer Andrew Spraggon in his studio laboratory, and now his band Sola Rosa is on its way to get Queenstown grooving.

The Queenstown-raised soldier who lost both legs in an explosion in Afghanistan is "bearing up very well", the acting principal of his former school says.

The latest play reading by Remarkable Theatre is of a "dark comedy about a dysfunctional family everyone can relate to", director and co-star Victoria Keating says.

Artworks inspired by 20 crosses celebrate the special character of St Joseph's School, Queenstown, and will be among 100 original artworks to go under the hammer at the fifth school PTA art auction, held every two years, on Saturday.

The history behind a unique collection of hand-painted photograph postcards of the Wakatipu was revealed at the launch of the calendar for 2013 created by the Queenstown and District Historical Society.

The inspirational story of a Queenstown man who did not let paralysis stop him from living life to the limit was named best short film at the Winter Games Adventure Film Festival.

Residents living in the high wildfire risk "red zone" near Queenstown stand to benefit from a new pager-based system introduced by the Department of Conservation Wakatipu area office (Doc) and the Queenstown Lakes District Council this week.