A locally written, produced and directed show will be staged in Arrowtown for a four-night season this month, the first writing and directing foray for local thespian Jo Blick.
Queenstown brains will go into battle tomorrow night during the Big Pub Quiz being held at the Memorial Hall in aid of the Red Cross Christchurch Appeal.
A $100,000 donation from the Otago Community Trust to help with the staging of the 2011 Winter Games NZ was announced yesterday.
Fewer than 2000 tickets remained yesterday for Saturday's inaugural Gibbston Valley Winery Summer Concert, featuring Dr Hook and Creedence Clearwater Revisited.
Strangers held hands and hugged each other in the Queenstown CBD yesterday as almost 1000 people observed a two-minute silence, marking seven days to the moment the magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck Christchurch.
More than 100 requests for accommodation have been received by the Queenstown Lakes District Council from Christchurch residents in need of respite.
Pupils in Queenstown dug deep on Friday, doing their bit to help victims of the Christchurch earthquake.
More than 50 varieties of "cottage plants", including historic roses, were planted around the 140-year-old Millers Flat Church on Friday as part of the landscaping plan for the restored building.
Queenstown local Emily Burns will take one of the lead roles in Showbiz Queenstown's May production All Shook Up.
Randall Russo is one of the lucky ones. The 38-year-old, who hails from New York, arrived in Queenstown on Wednesday night from Christchurch after deciding enough was enough.
An "unexpectedly low" number of sales were recorded in Queenstown for January - a theme that was common across most regions in New Zealand, Real Estate Institute of New Zealand Queenstown spokesman Adrian Snow said.
A hearing for the Queenstown Lakes District Council's draft brothel control bylaw will be held in Queenstown on Monday.
It was important the rest of the world understood "New Zealand is functioning", New Zealand Hotel Council Queenstown chairwoman Penny Clark said yesterday.
The tiny Gibbston community turned out in force on Monday night to celebrate its recent win in the 2011 New Zealander of the Year Awards.
Up to 800 items - including several sourced by Bayleys Queenstown - will go up for sale tomorrow in one of the biggest online auctions ever seen in New Zealand.
New Zealand Golf's decision to move the Open to Clearwater was disappointing "but Christchurch could do with a bit of a boost", The Hills golf professional Craig Palmer said yesterday.
Queenstown Airport Corporation's six-monthly report lists the strategic alliance with Auckland Airport as a highlight and has included the impending High Court judicial review into the alliance as a challenge.
Kelvin Heights residents are being encouraged to "muck in" today, to help with some of the $70,000 worth of landscaping at the new State Highway 6-Peninsula Rd intersection, near Queenstown.
Members of Queenstown's gay and lesbian community have formed a society, and hope to attract enough members to be able to organise a summer mardi gras.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has the power to control the effects, or potential effects, of any development which could push up land prices in the district, a High Court decision has found.