A 34-year-old man will appear in the Invercargill District Court today charged with manslaughter, after Queenstown police upgraded the charge from assault.
A resource consent application to relocate the historic Millers Flat Church in Arrowtown has been publicly notified.
White ribbons decorated uniforms of the Queenstown Police on Wednesday as the resort's staff joined their Southern District counterparts in marking a stand against violence towards women and families.
Plans for an "integral" part of the future Lake Hayes Estate community were announced yesterday, after a resource consent application was lodged with the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Views on safety and risk management practices in the adventure tourism industry are being sought as part of a nationwide review into the sector.
As the sun beat down on Queenstown last week, it was hard to believe 10 years ago those standing in Earnslaw Park would have been waist-deep in water.
Ziptrek Ecotours will launch a flying fox operation from the Skyline, on Bobs Peak, next month.
A picture of the events leading to the death of a Queenstown man in the resort on Thursday night was beginning to emerge, but there was still "a long way to go", Senior Sergeant John Fookes said yesterday.
Queenstown took a "little step" closer to becoming New Zealand's No 1 destination for walking and cycling trails on Saturday when the 6.2km Jardine Park to Jacks Point Clubhouse Lakeside Trail was officially "reopened".
Those with the gift of the gab will be in heaven next month, when the Wakatipu's first Pecha Kucha Night is held in the Athenaeum Hall, in Arrowtown.
There were thrills and spills, and action galore in Arrowtown on Saturday during the 2009 Arrowtown Preschool Trolley Derby.
Library, winery, golf course club house, former stables and several private homes were all recognised in Queenstown last night at the 2009 Southern Architecture Awards.
The New Zealand landscape would be "the third star" of a $NZ10 million movie being filmed in Queenstown, its director, Ian Sharp, said yesterday.
A deafening silence fell yesterday afternoon as the 24-tonne, K92 locomotive, which turns 131 years old on December 13, was shunted on to the back of a McNeills Distribution truck at Kingston before it left town bound for Mandeville.
Keeping children safe on the water was the motivation for Lakes Leisure's aquatic education programme, which moved to the Frankton Marina on Wednesday.
The lifting of a caveat on part of the controversial Five Mile development near Frankton by the Queenstown Lakes District Council removes the last obstacle to the site being sold.
The addition of a third Sydney-Queenstown flight from Qantas means airlines are "growing the market", but does not mean "cannibalisation", Queenstown Airport Corporation chief executive Steve Sanderson says.
Summerdaze 2009-10, the Queenstown Lakes District Council's summer festival, is promising another action-packed programme.
Peregrine winemaker Pete Bartle and co-owner Greg Hay had good reason to smile last week after the company's 2007 pinot noir broke a 13-year Australian dominance in Winestate magazine's wine of the year award.
It was bizarre timing given the headlines of recent weeks.