More than $30 million is owed to creditors by Pounamu Prime Ltd, a company owned by bankrupt developer Dan McEwan, with the prospect of any dividend listed as "unlikely", the first liquidator's report said.
The Overseas Investment Office has approved an investment in sensitive land at Queenstown and Wanaka, which would allow ongoing residential developments, but details on who has bought the land from whom, and for how much, remain a mystery.
The Southern Lakes region - including Queenstown, Wanaka and Fiordland - has cracked the Lonely Planet's Top 10 Regions in its Best in Travel 2012, published today, the only New Zealand region to feature in the new book.
Queenstown reporter Tracey Roxburgh interviewed IRB referee manager Paddy O'Brien. But having some things in common helped ease the tension...
The jurisdiction of the Television Match Official will be extended over the entire field in selected northern and southern hemisphere matches next year and, if successful, it may become permanent.
Queenstown Trails Trust chief executive Kaye Parker has what a rugby player might call white-line fever.
Overcrowding at the Dart Hut in recent years has prompted the Department of Conservation (Doc) to look at introducing a hut-booking system for the Rees-Dart Track.
In 2005, one of the most dramatic fires in the history of the Wakatipu broke out; yesterday, it was replayed.
No major disruptions to traffic flow are expected as a result of the resealing of up to 4km of State Highway 6A/Frankton Rd next month, New Zealand Transport Agency Central Otago area manager John Jarvis says.
Queenstown is "underselling itself" in terms of winery tourism, a forum has been told.
The "Battle of the Tasman" degustation dinner, held at Hilton Sydney on Monday night, was pronounced a resounding success, with more than 200 diners enjoying the best ingredients from Australia and New Zealand.
Another proposed jet-boat operation on Lake Wakatipu is on the cards, after a favourable Environment Court decision regarding Thunder Jet issued last month.
A charitable liquor trust may be set up in Queenstown, potentially partly funded through the police diversion scheme.
Lakes Leisure Zumba group fitness instructors Beau-qay Brookes (front left) and Camila Oliveira with participants in the special "pink" Zumba class at Memorial Hall on Tuesday night, raising money for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
Frankton golf course's days look to be numbered if a recommendation to the full Queenstown Lakes District Council is anything to go by.
It was a case of "steady as she goes" in the real estate scene in Queenstown last month, with the September sales volume similar to the average for the preceding nine months of 2011, Real Estate Institute of New Zealand Queenstown spokesman Kelvin Collins said.
An application for a stay of abatement made by the owner of the Bunker Restaurant and Bar to the Environment Court has been granted by Judge Jon Jackson.
It has taken five years, almost $3 million and a huge amount of support and goodwill from the community and funding agencies, but the three historic Buckingham St cottages saved from the brink of ruin in 2007 are finally complete - and Arrowtown is ready to party once again.
The representatives charged with determining the form of a conference centre for Queenstown will discuss feedback from the community at their meeting this month.
Issues with winter maintenance of skifield access roads - particularly Coronet Peak Rd - have to be solved quickly, Queenstown Lakes District Council transport manager Denis Mander says.
