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.
Pledges of almost $80,000 have launched community fundraising for the Queenstown Memorial Hall upgrade before tomorrow night's Reach Out for Memorial Hall concert.
With performers scattered throughout New Zealand, chart music being prepared in Australia and the band based in Dunedin, organising the first of three concerts to raise money for the planned Queenstown Memorial Hall upgrade has been no mean feat.
Primary schools throughout Central Otago have been learning how to pan for gold recently in the build-up to the Gold 150 celebrations - when schools will go pan to pan in the New Zealand Gold Panning Competitions.
Possible changes to the way the Queenstown Lakes District Council is composed and whether the Wanaka Community Board should be retained were discussed yesterday by the council.
A "big change in behaviour" with regard to freedom campers had occurred in the Queenstown Lakes district since the council introduced its Freedom Camping Bylaw last year, and had issued 888 $200 infringement notices.
Queenstown is showcasing the best it has to offer in education this week, during the Australia New Zealand Agent Workshop (Anza) - Australia and New Zealand's largest education and youth tourism trade show.
