Queenstown woman Christine Simpson, who has had two brain aneurisms, is disappointed her physiotherapist will no longer be working at Lakes District Hospital after the Southland District Health Board this week terminated a private contractor's service.
A district health board-led review of hospital capacity has not adequately addressed the inequities in Queenstown's health service, Wakatipu Health Trust trustee and Queenstown Lakes district councillor Cath Gilmour says.
A contractor was taken to Lakes District Hospital as a precaution after a fire at Queenstown Events Centre yesterday.
Receivers and financiers are trying to sell a failed development on the edge of Lake Wakatipu which owes creditors more than $19 million.
The RSA Welfare Trust is holding a series of seminars throughout Otago and Southland to help war veterans and surviving spouses of veterans receive war pensions and other financial entitlements.
Cheese lovers will have a chance to try their hands at cheese-making at Gibbston next month.
A review of rural Otago and Southland hospitals shows "clear inconsistencies" in how the district health boards are funding services across the regions, Otago and Southland DHBs planning and funding manager David Chrisp says.
Four developers have lodged expressions of interest with the Queenstown Lakes District Council to take on the $20 million development of a 240-berth marina at Frankton.
Royalburn Farming Company has appealed to the Environment Court after being declined a resource consent to subdivide more than 100ha on the Crown Terrace into 20 lots.
A record number of international passengers through Queenstown Airport for the first three months of the 2009/10 financial year was "simply a fantastic outcome", airport chief executive Steve Sanderson said yesterday.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has recorded a loss of $6.1 million, but ratepayers will not be affected.
More than $4000 was raised for Wakatipu High School's annual year 10 camp to Branches Station in the inaugural Queenstown Hill Te Tapanui Challenge on Sunday.
Wanaka's "Dr Compost", Ben Elms, teaches Megan Palmer, of Queenstown, how to build a raised-bed vegetable garden during a community garden workshop on how to make organic vegetable gardens at the weekend.
Managing wilding conifers is essential to maintaining Queenstown's status as New Zealand's top tourist town, Scion wilding tree expert Nick Ledgard told the New Zealand Biosecurity Institute conference in Queenstown last week.
The inaugural Drive New Zealand Classic Rally rolled into Queenstown over the weekend.
Judge Kevin Phillips yesterday questioned whether a young Arrowtown drink-driver had benefited financially from a deal with a television company which broadcast an interview with her.
Queenstown musician Mark Wilson said he was "tickled pink" by a musical tribute held in his honour on the opening night of the 2009 ASB Queenstown JazzFest.
Two Queenstown bars, the Boiler Room and Minus Five Ice Bar, which were placed in receivership in July, have been sold.
Hundreds of Queenstown residents and visitors turned out for the the opening of the 2009 ASB Queenstown JazzFest at the weekend.
Several hundred family members, friends, colleagues and patients farewelled long-serving Queenstown GP Dr Pat Farry in a ceremony at his home yesterday.
