"Get it finished and get it out of the way" was the message from retailers on Beach and Rees Sts to the Queenstown Lakes District Council's utilities committee this week on planned work in the area.
A report will be presented to the Queenstown Lakes District Council utilities committee next month detailing the failure of the Wakatipu Recycling plant's "air-knife system".
An "Otta" sealing programme will begin on some unsealed roads in Queenstown this week, costing the Queenstown Lakes District Council $210,000 per year, but expected to prove cost-effective in future.
Anyone with information on a distinctive missing rifle is being asked to contact Queenstown police.
Christmas has come early for a Queenstown church after "a considerable" amount of money handed to the police in September was returned to the finder.
"A financial time bomb" is how Queenstown Lakes District Council Mayor Clive Geddes describes New Zealand Transport Agency road maintenance funding cuts - which for the QLDC total $2.3 million over the next three years.
Crown Range Rd will not close, Queenstown Lakes District Council Mayor Clive Geddes said yesterday.
A Lake Hayes resident requested "mercy" from the Queenstown Lakes District Council utilities committee yesterday, saying he was sick of the green, smelly and unsafe water supplied to his home.
It was just like being at Flemington. Minus the grass, the wind, the exposure to the sun and the queues for the loos and the drinks.
The last time Molly Malaney was in Queenstown she was dumped by United States reality television star Jason Mesnic (aka The Bachelor).
A former Kawarau Jet driver has been committed for trial, following an accident last year which resulted in the death of a Chinese tourist.
The $15 million Clearwater golf course, designed by Queenstown developer John Darby in consultation with Sir Bob Charles, has been bought from its developers by members of the club for $3 million.
The Arrowtown Scouts are on a mission - to raise $60,000 in the next 12 months, to enable them to attend the 2010 Scout Jamboree at Mystery Creek, Hamilton.
A defended hearing for Wanaka businesswoman Fiona Graham is scheduled to begin in the Queenstown District Court on Monday.
An extraordinary meeting of the Southland District Health Board may be called soon in response to strong opposition from rural GPs to having a single primary health organisation (PHO) in the South, board chairman Paul Menzies said yesterday.
A public appeal was launched yesterday to raise money for a $1.4 million redevelopment of St John's Presbyterian Church.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is expected to discuss the ministerial review of Safety in Adventure Tourism behind closed doors at its full meeting in Queenstown on Tuesday.
Two Department of Conservation employees from Wanaka have paid $3000 in costs after damaging Rata trees on Pigeon Island, Lake Wakatipu, in July.
Queenstown's newest education campus has more than doubled its student numbers in eight months, exceeding expectations.
Stormcat Lodge, at Arthurs Point, has been sold to an Australian investor for an undisclosed sum.
