Some members of world-touring London-based alternative rockers I Am Giant are coming home when the band tours New Zealand, including Queenstown on August 17, with its debut album next month.
An agreement easing Indian film production in New Zealand, and by extension Queenstown, will add "strategic value" to the resort and boost its rising popularity among Indian visitors, its regional tourism organisation and film office say.
One of New Zealand's most important tourism routes, State Highway 94 from Te Anau to Milford Sound, has been closed by snow since Thursday, and no respite is likely today.
The new operator of the historic New Orleans Hotel, in Arrowtown, says she has no plans to change the popular watering hole, or its staff, but she is open to ideas from the community.
Sofitel Queenstown Hotel and Spa has been named the world's best hotel-spa in this year's Travel + Leisure magazine's World's Best Awards.
Wilding pine trees covering the equivalent of 10,000 rugby fields were eradicated in the 2010-11 season.
Indian tourists appreciate New Zealanders' "friendly, relaxed nature" and want this reflected in their pre-planned, often self-driven holidays involving many activities in a few destinations, Tourism New Zealand research reveals.
Some Wakatipu residents pay for treatment by private specialists in the area instead of visiting a public specialist in Dunedin or Invercargill, the panel invited to tackle the Wakatipu health crisis was told.
A hut named after a 1930s scheelite miner who was notoriously fond of the grog has been airlifted from certain destruction and restored for posterity in a $10,000 project by the Department of Conservation Wakatipu area office.
Known to millions as Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement's laid-back American pal Dave in the hit HBO series Flight of the Conchords, comedian and actor Arj Barker continues to break out on his own with his first regional tour of New Zealand, which takes in Queenstown on September 10.
Television weatherman and pilot Jim Hickey (foreground), Jetstar Group chief executive Bruce Buchanan (centre) and Queenstown Airport Corporation chief executive Steve Sanderson admire the airport's 124 new runway lights from the control tower.
Public donations to St John Wakatipu were down by more than two-thirds on a year ago in the "Flash-a-Light for St John" appeal in Queenstown last week.
Queenstown Art Society member and acrylic on canvas portrait artist Renata Hofmanova models some of the wearable artworks on display in the new exhibition titled "Scarf" in the Cloakroom Gallery.
Air New Zealand says more infrastructure and consultative work needs to be done at Queenstown Airport, while the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says all airlines must satisfy safety requirements, before night flying in Queenstown can be considered.
KingsView School pupils and siblings (from left) Monroe D'Aiello (12), Ben Nicol (11), Nicoli D'Alves (12), Jared Vermaak (12), Max Nicol (9), Sebastian Schneider (9), Mikyla Schneider (11), Luiz Gustavo D'Alves (6), Mackenzie Shewan (8), Florence Roebeck (3), Dayna Corkery (5), Taylah Corkery (4), Zoe Percy (6) and Tobin Roebeck (5) demonstrated their French language skills to relatives on Wednesday, after 10 hour-long lessons over 10 weeks, with French teacher Nathalie Wilson, of Arrowtown.
Shihad frontman Jon Toogood has teamed with several of New Zealand's leading singer-songwriters, including Julia Deans (Fur Patrol) and Shayne Carter (Dimmer, Straitjacket Fits), to form the Adults.
Television weatherman and pilot Jim Hickey last night joined Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) chief executive Steve Sanderson and Jetstar Group chief executive Bruce Buchanan to officially "switch on" the $2 million runway lights at Queenstown Airport.
The historic New Orleans Hotel in Arrowtown will have a new operator from Christchurch behind the bar next week.
Queenstown police are appealing for information regarding an alleged sexual assault in the centre of the resort, which was believed to have happened just after 2am today.
Ten days of partying drew to a close yesterday as the final activities in the 2011 Queenstown Winter Festival played out.
