Members of New Zealand's Chinese community are invited to apply for funding from a trust which helped the Lakes District Museum in Arrowtown upgrade display cabinets containing artefacts from the Arrowtown Chinese Settlement.
Bookings are already coming in for the second women-only Burton "snowbroads" camp at the Remarkables, being held on September 12, after a huge response to Sunday's event.
A proposed refurbishment of the Tap in Arrowtown will be discussed by the Queenstown Lakes District Council utilities committee at its meeting in Queenstown tomorrow.
Wakatipu High School needs a Cow - that is, a computer on wheels - and the school is hoping a fundraising evening at Jacks Point next month will raise all the money it needs.
Slips, dangerous trees, safety signs, flooding, and ice and snow control collectively cost $1.1 million more than was budgeted for in the 2009-10 year.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has reported a $6.37 million saving in its infrastructure capital works budget for the 2009-10 financial year.
A $500,000 firefighting bill following an incident in rural Southland in 2008 highlighted the importance of vigilance and being responsible when lighting fires, Southern Rural Fire Authority principal rural fire officer Mike Grant said.
The Government review of safety in the $3.5 billion adventure tourism and outdoor commercial sector understated the extent of the problem, a safety specialist who contributed research data to the report said.
Part of next Monday's extraordinary meeting of the Queenstown Lakes District Council to discuss the airport shares issue will be open to the public.
Mad Dog River Boarding director Brad McLeod said he had "no issues with anything" contained in the Department of Labour's report into the adventure tourism and outdoor commercial sector in New Zealand.
Safety regulations for adventure tourism activities are set for a shake-up, following the release of the Department of Labour's report into the adventure tourism and outdoor sectors.
The Otago Rugby Football Union has hit the fundraising trail in a bid to keep talented young players in the region, introducing a new scholarship.
Maritime New Zealand reviews of both the rafting and jet-boating industries were progressing, and changes to rafting rules were expected to be signed by Cabinet in "a matter of days", an MNZ spokeswoman said yesterday.
Young Blanket Bay chef Joseph Clarke came close to tears in Auckland on Tuesday night when he was named the 2010 Restaurant Association of New Zealand Culinary Fare chef of the year, from almost 1000 other chefs, after three days of intense competition.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will hold an extraordinary meeting next Monday to discuss the Queenstown Airport shares sale, but it will not be open to the public.
No date has been set for a New Zealand inquest into the death two years ago of British backpacker Emily Jordan.
A report from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) into the deaths of two hang-gliders in Queenstown last year has been received by Southern region coroner David Crerar, but no decision has been made about an inquest.
Steps to address the safety record of New Zealand's $3 billion adventure tourism industry were unveiled yesterday - and broadly welcomed by tourism operators in the country's adventure capital.
One of New Zealand's leading recruitment and placement agencies has moved into a new, state-of-the-art building in Queenstown, almost six years after first opening in the resort.
Queenstown tourists surveyed as part of the Department of Labour's Adventure Tourism Review were seeking "fear and thrills", or perceived risk, from commercial adventure activities, rather than "actual risk and an uncertain outcome".
