A 26-year-old paraglider was flown by helicopter to Lakes District Hospital yesterday afternoon after breaking his leg in the Mount Aspiring National Park.
NZSKI has applied for resource consent to establish a 50,000 litre underground diesel storage tank at the Remarkables ski area, replacing two existing fuel tanks.
The future of airline navigation will be discussed in Queenstown next week during Approach15, seeking to expand performance based navigation (PBN) across the Pacific.
Eighteen months after one of Queenstown's top dressage horses had its tail hair hacked off by vandals, it is on the way to the Horse of the Year competition.
An underpass is planned for State Highway 6 at Gibbston, connecting the Gibbston Valley Winery with the Queenstown Trail and future developments on land the company owns.
Dangerous tourist drivers whose rental vehicle contracts have been cancelled will be blacklisted in a Queenstown trial to prevent them from getting back behind the wheel.
A search and rescue operation is underway near Queenstown after a German tourist failed to return a locator beacon by his "panic date".
The New Zealand Open's wish has been granted.
Farmers are being urged to mitigate the risk of fire on their properties, with dry conditions resulting in daily fire callouts in the Otago Rural region.
Arrowtown's proposed petrol station is headed to the Environment Court following an 11th-hour appeal.
A heavyweight team in the Australian Football League (AFL) has not ruled out playing an exhibition match in the South Island.
Tests carried out at the University of Otago confirmed bones found in Kingston late last week were those of an animal.
While it may be impossible to stop terrorism, Otago Daily Times cartoonist Garrick Tremain says as a society ''we've got to stand up to that stuff''.
A wing came off a glider that crashed in Namibia, killing two Queenstown men, according to a South African news report.
Bones discovered in Kingston last night were likely to have belonged to an animal, Queenstown police say.
Queenstown could well become the training venue of choice for Australian football teams, the high performance coach for Australia's biggest sporting club says.
A bumper weekend is on the cards for the Southern Lakes district with two major events expected to attract about 30,000 people.
Lex Perkins has spent the better part of 75 years doing things for others.
Private jets have been turned away or asked to ''drop and go'' at Queenstown Airport after a temporary terminal hit capacity only seven months after being built.
A roading project costing millions of dollars and designed to alleviate congestion and improve safety near Queenstown has begun and is expected to be largely completed by winter.
