About 750 women from as far afield as Timaru, Dunedin and Invercargill braved rain and cooler temperatures in Queenstown yesterday to complete the sixth annual Real Women's Duathlon and 5km run/walk at Millbrook Resort.
Doors to some of the Wakatipu's most stunning homes were opened on Saturday, during the inaugural Queenstown New Zealand House and Garden Tour, a fundraiser for the Cancer Society of New Zealand.
The Arrowtown Trust failed to win the supreme award in the TrustPower National Community Awards, but trust chairman David Clarke said it was always going to be a "tall order".
Milford Dart Ltd's proposal to dig a road tunnel through mountains in two national parks was likened to communist dogma practised in the Czech Republic - for happier tomorrows, we are sacrificing today - by a Glenorchy resident yesterday.
An Auckland-based company has applied for resource consent to establish a "24/7" gym at Hawthorne Dr, Frankton, in a building owned by Diversified NZ Property Fund Ltd.
The cost to Milford Dart Ltd for hearings into its proposed $150 million Dart Passage Tunnel was "outrageous", coming in at a total of $70,000 for 10 days of hearings, MDL director Michael Sleigh told the Otago Daily Times yesterday.
A Queenstown resident yesterday compared the "minor" effects of the proposed Dart Passage Tunnel construction to terminal cancer and told Department of Conservation hearings chairman Paul Green and assistant Chris Visser "I'll see you at the funeral".
"Great exposure" for Queenstown is on the way as Jane Campion and Garth Davis move the filming of their mini-series Top of the Lake to the resort's CBD this week.
Emotions ran high during the first day of a scheduled five-day hearing into the proposed Milford Dart Passage in Queenstown yesterday, with one Glenorchy resident crying as she read her submission.
The Department of Conservation was compared to Dr Seuss' The Lorax in Queenstown yesterday, tasked with speaking for the trees "for the trees have no tongue", yet remaining silent when its voice needed to be heard.
An overwhelming sense of disbelief has been voiced this week during Queenstown hearings on the controversial Milford Dart Ltd proposal to construct a $150 million, 11.3km tunnel through two national parks.
A proposed reduction in the speed limit for Arrowtown looks unlikely to proceed, with the village-wide 40kmh speed limit proposal not universally supported by the community.
A $4.2 million capital works project which will increase Queenstown Airport's departure facilities by more than 50% is due to begin before Easter.
Police are investigating an alleged assault on an 11-year-old girl by one of the competitors in Saturday's Motatapu events.
It took less than 10 minutes on Saturday for two Queenstown women to lose their full heads of hair - all for a good cause.
Chuck Berry's name is synonymous with adventure - but it would appear he has inherited his sporting genes from his mother, the oldest female competitor in the 2012 Motatapu events.
Principal Family Court Judge Peter Boshier is proposing a new way of handling domestic violence cases.
Queenstown police are investigating the cause of a crash on State Highway 6, near Arrowtown, yesterday, which sent a courier to Lakes District Hospital with leg injuries.
The installation of water meters in Roxburgh will be delayed a year to help keep the ward rates increase to about 7.2%.
Companies behind the initial development of Kawarau Falls Station owed the Bank of Scotland International (Australia) Ltd $156.2 million by December last year, up from $154.8 million in July.
