The Rolleston Volunteer Fire Brigade team won the National Champion title after beating 16 other fire brigade teams, including Queenstown, to win the National Road Crash Rescue Challenge.
A starry night of dazzling live entertainment, Reach Out for the Memorial Hall on March 3 will boast three acts of entertainment with a live band on stage. Favourite songs from the Rat Pack era and Motown as well as a musical comedy double act will benefit the upgrade of the hall.
Texas-based alt-country roots rock star Jackie Bristow is bringing it all back with a "Coming Home" tour, which takes in Bannockburn and Gibbston, near Queenstown.
Former Queenstown resident Matt Hunter, with his son Oscar Hunter and Alana Vining, of Queenstown, won the 2012 Donald Hay Classic for the second time on Saturday.
A fire near Mt Rosa vineyard at Gibbston, apparently started by rabbit-shooters, took 20 firefighters more than 18 hours to control on Friday night and Saturday morning. Queenstown Lakes District Council principal rural fire officer G
Showbiz Queenstown opened auditions at the weekend for scores of children and adults hoping to take the stage for the new production of The Sound of Music.
Lee Vandergeest edged out fellow Queenstowner Brian Carpenter and Frankton resident Amy Baker won by one point against neighbour Sarah Bogle in the latest heat of the Market Chef competition, held at Remarkables Market on Saturday.
New Zealand chef, author and broadcaster Peta Mathias will be the guest of St Joseph's School and give a cooking demonstration in the Queenstown Resort College on March 14.
Taking the first step on the property ladder in the Queenstown Lakes district is a daunting prospect for many, but a seminar organised by the district's housing trust will explain how it can help.
Queenstown firefighters yesterday competed against crews from 16 other brigades from throughout New Zealand in the three-day 2012 National Road Crash Rescue Challenge.
A discussion about the role of alcohol in the community and the place of parents in teaching their children how to treat alcohol are possible positive outcomes of Queenstown's secondary school "standing down" 13 pupils for intoxication.
The intended merger of the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) and the New Zealand Hotel Council (NZHC) by April 1 will be "business as usual" for Queenstown hoteliers, with potential savings into the bargain.
There are only three top New Zealand artists left to play in the successful Summer Playground series of intimate gigs in the Winehouse, Gibbston.
Hollywood comes to Arrowtown for a special celebratory 10th anniversary Oscars party in Dorothy Brown's Cinema and Bar on February 27.
The Classic Hits Winery Tour will be a rare chance to enjoy Avalanche City in New Zealand before their touring duties catapult the band back to Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
A bestselling contemporary artist delivers an explosion of colour exclusively in a Queenstown gallery from tomorrow, and collectors have been flying in from around New Zealand this week to preview the show.
St John Queenstown ambulance officers are used to getting hearts pumping and never more so than on St Valentine's Day, when crews spread the love around Wakatipu.
Queenstown's fledgling health watchdog says it looks forward to the outcome of a clinicians' forum on the controversial issue of where a diagnostic scanner should go to serve both Central and Lakes districts.
A proposed law to "Monday-ise" Waitangi Day and Anzac Days when they fall on weekends will stimulate domestic tourism, the lobbying Tourism Industry Association New Zealand says.
One of Queenstown's finest chefs has explored the dark side of culinary desire to create a tantalising degustation inspired by "the Seven Deadly Sins" to inflame the senses of diners on St Valentine's Day.
