Tracey Roxburgh

Meet Mary Manssen, quite possibly New Zealand's answer to Supergran.

One of New Zealand's most experienced mountaineers is among five Queenstown climbers and a helicopter pilot who are helping on Mt Everest with rescues and recoveries in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake.

Arrowtown Buckingham Belles (from left) Diana Walton, Kelly Templer, Ali Roberts, Nichola Bentley, Angela McRae and Lizzy Wallace-Gibbs, enjoy the Arrowtown Tea Dance on Anzac Day.

They came in their thousands. Unprecedented numbers turned out in Queenstown on Saturday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings and remember the fallen.

Queenstown Lakes District Council emergency management officer Trevor Andrews (left), with corporate services general manager Meaghan Miller and Otago Rural Fire Authority Southern Lakes deputy rural fire officer Jamie Cowan debrief following a multi-agency Civil Defence exercise in Queenstown on Wednesday.

After two years of planning and fundraising, Arrowtown's 92-year-old cenotaph has been restored in time to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings.

The day 5-year-old Ruby Jay Marris was buried in Oamaru, the Government announced it will fast-track measures targeting visiting drivers.

Developers of Queenstown's Mitre 10 Mega have been directed to pay Environment Court costs of $50,000 to the Crown.

Queenstown's council has been paid more than $16,000 by the National Rural Fire Authority, relating to the cost of fighting a fire at Cecil Peak a year ago.

Susan Stevens thought she was meeting people from Byron Bay to help them establish a rail trail.

The head of New Zealand's Rental Vehicle Association is calling for calm as the issue of tourist drivers reaches fever pitch in Queenstown.

Queenstown police believe a United States tourist who died in Dunedin Hospital on Tuesday suffered his ''significant'' injuries as a result of a fall into the same alleyway where an English tourist died similarly six years ago.

Incidents involving international drivers this summer have left some asking what rental car companies are doing to make sure the people they hire cars to drive safe. To find out, Tracey Roxburgh went behind the scenes of a Queenstown company that is going the extra mile.

Two former Arrowtown residents took a walk down memory lane last week, one staying in their family home for the first time in more than 70 years.

Private jet passengers injected more than $7 million into the Queenstown economy last year, with some spending about $10,000 a day.

Arrowtown businessman Scott Stevens is contesting the Arrowtown by-election, triggering an election race.