More than 150 customers have signed up to use a ground-breaking Dunedin-based hospitality industry business tool and, with two major investors backing the project, its future looks bright.
Four new schools may be opened in Queenstown by 2017, with backers of an independent school in the resort announcing Jacks Point as its preferred location and a potential opening date in 2015.
Departing Lakes Environmental chief executive Hamish Dobbie says his decision to leave the position he has held since 2007 has been ''an evolving process in my mind''.
An announcement on the preferred site an independent school in Queenstown is imminent, following a meeting with the land owners in the resort last week.
The Auckland-based Pacific Blue pilot accused of carelessly operating an aircraft flying from Queenstown to Sydney in June 2010 has been found guilty by Judge Kevin Phillips.
Disgraced Queenstown postie Philippa Lynette Lindsay has admitted stealing thousands of pieces of mail destined for Wakatipu homes, in the Queenstown District Court this morning.
New surveillance equipment will be installed at SkyCity's Queenstown and Auckland casinos which will allow Auckland surveillance staff to remotely access Queenstown surveillance cameras, now that it has received permission from the Gambling Commission.
Arrotown's Dorothy Brown's Cinema will host the second annual 2013 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival next month.
A ''historical moment'' is about to occur in New Zealand's wine industry following consultation this week between Central Otago winemakers and the Austrian Riedel Glass Company, which aimed to produce a wine glass specifically for Central Otago pinot noir.
After raising $800,000, two Queenstown businessmen have officially launched their film equipment accessory Genie, which they say will revolutionise motion-controlled time-lapse photography.
The entire Lakes Leisure board resigned yesterday after finding themselves in an ''untenable position''.
More than 100 employees face an uncertain future after the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday decided to disestablish Lakes Leisure Ltd and Lakes Environmental Ltd.
The alleged theft of a piece of fabric art from the Lakes District Museum on Monday is just the second time in 25 years anything has been taken from the Arrowtown-based museum, director David Clarke says.
Two Arrowtown women are breathing new life into a historic building on the town's main street - to the delight of women in the town.
February had the highest sales activity in the Wakatipu in six years, with 83 properties sold, including 22 sections.
Detective Sergeant Sarn Paroli, of Levin, and his uncle Luigi Paroli, originally from Johnsonville, are men on a mission.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council says it has decided against adopting an ''alarmist approach'' to the Government's consultation over earthquake-prone buildings and believes more work needs to be done on details about assessment, risk and strengthening.
Eight families will be treated to a ride on TSS Earnslaw this weekend during a Child Cancer Foundation (CCF) event that will, in part, look to establish a formal branch of the foundation in the Wakatipu.
Boat users on Lake Wakatipu, Lake Wanaka and Queenstown Lakes rivers are being urged to ''be very careful'', as water levels are dropping by the day.
In just under three minutes Colin Aitchison set five New Zealand skydiving and wingsuit records above Methven yesterday - and he's already planning to better them.
