The Department of Conservation Wakatipu area office is aiming to plant 1ha of kowhai woodlands in the Wakatipu each year - or 1000 kowhai plants and 2000 shrubs - and it needs your help.
For five years, Otago Daily Times and Queenstown Times bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh (aka Troxy) has actively avoided embracing her inner snow bunny and steadfastly refused to learn to ski. That's about to change. Today Troxy will have her first skiing lesson at The Remarkables... for those planning to be on the mountain today, consider this a warning.
Thousands of people made the most of events held in Queenstown over the weekend, part of The QRC Downtown Sessions, coinciding with the 2011 Winter Games NZ - an event "every New Zealander can be proud of", Minister of Economic Development David Carter said on Friday night.
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden on Friday draws the names of 60 Lakes District residents who entered a ballot to attend the civic welcomes for the Irish and Georgian RWC 2011 teams.
Some of the world's top skiers will be available to meet fans at Coronet Peak this weekend during the ski area's Kids Day Out.
Members of Arrowtown School's Rippa Rugby team, who represented Wales in the Rippa World Cup in Auckland earlier this week, proudly display their silver medals at Queenstown Airport on Wednesday.
Families are thinking of leaving Queenstown because of schooling issues, City Impact Church Early Childhood Centre manager Shaun Vining said at a meeting in the resort last night.
Staff at Pets and Vets, Queenstown, were kept busy yesterday with offers of help for Demon, the 2-year-old English mastiff-American red-nose pit bull-cross badly burned in a fire in Cromwell on Saturday.
Meet Demon. The 2-year-old English mastiff-American red nose pit bull cross was, until Saturday a happy-go-lucky, lovable and loved family pet.
Come October, it is the kind of score New Zealand rugby fans would dream about in the RWC 2011 final - All Blacks 50, Wales 20.
Helicopter rides will be offered at the Mid-Winter Remarkables Market, part of the Queenstown Resort College Downtown Sessions Festival in the 2011 Winter Games NZ, beginning on Friday.
The hunt is on for a new chief executive for Bungy New Zealand Group after Michelle Trapski announced on Monday she would be stepping down from the role at the end of September.
The countdown to one of the biggest winter events on the Queenstown calendar has started.
Work began in Queenstown yesterday to remove dangerous trees from a reserve beside Frankton Rd.
Four companies, including Steve Rout Contracting Ltd (in receivership) have withdrawn an appeal to the Environment Court regarding a private plan change at Quail Rise.
It is the kind of assignment you dream about.
The Environment Court has cancelled a decision by the Queenstown Lakes District Council, paving the way for a million-dollar proposal in Arrowtown to go ahead.
Destination Queenstown chief executive Tony Everitt has settled into his role in Queenstown.
Much has changed in three years - globally, nationally and locally.
The woman responsible for this community and behind many of the decisions which will shape the district well into the future, says the past three years have been ones of immense change.
