The seventh annual Cocktail World Cup - dubbed the "Carnival of the Cocktail" - will be hitting Queenstown next month.
Staff from the Department of Conservation and Southern Discoveries spent more than a week camping in Sinbad Gully, at the base of Mitre Peak, playing recorded kiwi calls, to ensure the safety of a pair of breeding kiwi before their release this week.
A recent award for the Gibbston Community Association had sealed the Gibbston River Trail's position on the "Kiwi must do list", Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden said.
Motorists who use the Church St underground car park in the Queenstown CBD will be facing a 60% increase in all-day parking charges and a 68% increase in monthly parking charges if a recommendation to the Queenstown Lakes District Council's infrastructure services committee meeting is approved.
An upgrade of one of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's "critical" wastewater infrastructure components will be discussed by the infrastructure services committee tomorrow.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is now seeking an alternative solution for dumping Wanaka sewage, this time near Luggate, having failed to gain support for a similar proposal in the Ardgour Valley, near Tarras, last year.
The whereabouts of Amber-Lee Cruickshank remain a mystery after bones discovered on the Kingston foreshore yesterday afternoon were identified as belonging to an animal, possibly a sheep.
A party is being planned for Gibbston to celebrate the tiny neighbourhood being named the 2011 Community of the Year during a gala dinner in Auckland on Wednesday night.
A 60-tonne, 24m-long boat, Pacific Jemm, is expected to begin its journey to Queenstown today on the back of an 88-wheeled trailer.
The Wakatipu Aero Club is searching for sponsors to "substantially boost" the club's funds, allowing it to relaunch its scholarship programme.
Champagne corks would have been popping around Gibbston last night as news broke the tiny community had been named the 2011 New Zealand Community of the Year.
A property on the Crown Terrace, near Arrowtown, will become the Bloomsbury Stud (NZ) Ltd's South Island thoroughbred bloodstock base after consent approval from the Overseas Investment Office late last year.
Arrowtown's doors are firmly locked and young people need not apply, says a Wakatipu family whose plan for a development just outside the town has come to nothing.
Former Aucklander Mia Bennie fell in love with the South Island in 1996.
The Arrowtown boundary, adopted by the Queenstown Lakes District Council in October, has been appealed to the Environment Court by Michael Hill's family as the Boxer Hill Trust.
Baby glow-worms have created an explosion of light in caves near Te Anau, following a particularly dry spring - but those wanting to see them will have to act quickly before cannibalistic worms spoil the show.
It took a global internet search, six months of battling and a few anxious moments, but Real Journeys has found a new dragon for TSS Earnslaw.
A rose bred specially to commemorate St John's 125th anniversary was presented to three Queenstown residents this week to recognise the contributions they, and the community, have made to St John Wakatipu.
A lakes district winery is bucking industry trends and investing $2.5 million in capital works as it expands its operations, including its wine tourism venture.
Securing the long-term future of Wanaka Airport is behind proposed zoning changes recently publicly notified by the Queenstown Lakes District Council, senior policy planner Ralph Henderson says.