The management of the Frankton Golf Course may be transferred to Lakes Leisure to operate as a six-hole course, with a possibility the council-controlled organisation will establish a redeveloped golf centre on the site.
A project that began about 18 months ago will come to fruition on Monday, when every school across the Central Otago and Lakes districts receives its Gold 150 education packs, compiled by the Lakes District Museum and funded by the Central Lakes Trust.
Two Queenstown entrepreneurs are taking the film industry by storm, having gained more than $US280,000 ($NZ339,000) in global funding less than a week after launching their new product, the Genie.
The company behind the development of stages two and three of Kawarau Falls Station owes more than $131 million to creditors and at March 2 had a total of $193,431 in hand.
For the first time, "mixologists" from throughout the Otago-Southland region will converge on Queenstown during a regional heat before the 2012 Cocktail World Cup.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has promised to "don the Lycra" and experience parts of the New Zealand Cycle Trail (NZCT) first hand, once the 2500km network around the country is complete.
The experience of Queenstown could provide the answer to fixing Christchurch's affordable housing shortage in the wake of the devastating February 2011 earthquake, New Zealand builder David Reid said this week.
A pivotal Arrowtown community asset, the Arrowtown Bowling Club building, will be upgraded, ensuring it remains fit for purpose into the future.
Three hundred people helped to officially open Queenstown's newest restaurant, Rata, on Friday night, the culmination of two years of planning by Queenstown businesswoman Fleur Caulton and four-star Michelin chef Josh Emett.
The battle lines were drawn at the Queenstown Rec Ground on Saturday afternoon, in one of the annual highlights of the Central Otago Premier rugby calendar.
A proposal to upgrade Earnslaw Park is likely to go out for public consultation after tomorrow's Queenstown Lakes District Council community services committee meeting in the resort.
Two Queenstown residents originally from Scotland are preparing to relive their teenage years and perfect their "BBC English" accents ahead of the 2012 Showbiz Queenstown season of The Sound of Music.
Dsicover Arrowtown - the Arrowtown Promotion and Business Association - has questioned if a community board would add value to Arrowtown "or just add another layer of bureaucracy".
The Fernhill Loop Track, in the Ben Lomond Reserve, looks likely to be closed, following a report to the Queenstown Lakes District Council community services committee from district forester Briana Pringle.
Milford Dart Ltd's proposal to build an 11.6km, $150 million commercial bus tunnel through two national parks was "technically viable" and the tunnel could be constructed and operated within environmental and safety constraints, the company's engineering expert says.
A family which wants to commemorate a lakes district pioneer whose descendants have lived in the Wakatipu area for 150 years by erecting a memorial in the Queenstown Gardens hope to have their application approved, despite a report recommending otherwise.
Pilots got to grips with "plane talking" in Queenstown last night, during one of 30 free Civil Aviation Authority seminars around the country.
Kingston Flyer owner David Bryce (pictured) has announced a trust is to be formed to preserve the historic steam locomotive in perpetuity.
Come November 4 the "No 1" item on Jendi Paterson's bucket list will have been ticked off - running the New York Marathon.
The Civil Aviation Authority says all adventure aviation operators in the Southern Lakes region should be fully certified under new regulations by Monday, but it was "not a good example" of how certification should be done.
