"Frustrating" was the only word NZSki chief executive James Coddington could find yesterday to describe the complete lack of snow on skifields, which is now leaving 540 NZSki staff without income.
After "testing the waters" in Wanaka, a volunteering matching service will be started across the Lakes District and Central Otago regions next month.
The cycle trails on Ben Lomond Recreational Reserve may be known collectively as the Queenstown Bike Park after tomorrow's meeting of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's community services committee.
Both Wakatipu and Arrowtown rugby teams walked away with wins on Saturday, Wakatipu chalking up a narrow win over Toko at home and Arrowtown romping home against Owaka in the second round of the countrywide competition.
"Several obvious shortfalls" in the Boffa Miskell urban design critique, which criticised Lake Hayes Estate, have been pointed out to Queenstown Lakes district councillors by Clark Fortune McDonald and Associates principal Neil McDonald - including the company critical of the subdivision was largely responsible for its original plan.
As expected, The Remarkables has delayed its opening day in what was described as a "massively disappointing and hugely frustrating" decision.
Calls for rates decreases are commonplace; requests for increases almost unheard of. Not in Arrowtown.
It has taken five years to turn the dream of having an ice rink in the Queenstown CBD for the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival into a reality, but organisers learned yesterday resource consent had been granted.
One case of elder abuse is reported to Age Concern Queenstown every month and as far as co-ordinator Helen Stevens is concerned, "one is too many".
The woman behind Starry Eyed - Queenstown's answer to Stars in their Eyes - is launching a new local talent show "but instead of imitation, we have the real thing", she says.
A cutting-edge information guide which encompasses Queenstown within an online, interactive "one-stop information show" was launched in the resort yesterday, and dozens of operators have already taken to the new technology.
Consent has been granted to Spruce Grove Trust to subdivide land near Millbrook Resort and establish four building platforms, an access allotment, a utilities allotment and two open-space allotments, as the result of an Environment Court hearing.
The younger members of the Queenstown community are being encouraged to become involved in this year's American Express Queenstown Winter Festival - now less than a fortnight away - with plenty on offer to entertain children.
Is it a bach, or is it a box? The answer: both.
Among the list of former All Blacks - widely regarded as some of the best rugby players of all time - to play against former French internationals in Queenstown later this year are three men who never got a test cap.
The final piece of Jigsaw Central Lakes' puzzle has been put in place, with the generous donation of a brand new Kia car to the Queenstown-based organisation.
The 2011 Parklife Invitational freestyle boarding and skiing competition will not be held at the Queenstown Rec Ground.
An assurance has been given to the Wilding Conifer Group the Queenstown Lakes District Council will battle on its behalf to secure funding from the Otago Regional Council to fight wilding pine spread.
Calling all photographers - the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival wants you.
Queenstown had a "globally unique" asset in the Ben Lomond Forest mountain bike park which, in its inaugural season, has been hailed a "fantastic success".
