While the "immediate" risk has passed at the Moonlight Track, near Queenstown, a permanent solution is being investigated to stabilise an area which, in heavy rain, could wipe out two houses.
After 35 years, the American Express Queenstown Winter Festival has been named the best-established event at the Event Professionals Industry Awards Dinner, held in Taupo this week.
Three plan changes, including the controversial Arrowtown urban boundary plan change, will be notified this month, Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Clive Geddes says.
Residents would soon be able to subscribe to a community-owned wheelie-bin service, Queenstown Lakes District Council solid waste manager Stefan Borowy said yesterday.
Some of New Zealand's past Olympians will be in action this weekend at Coronet Peak, competing in a spirit of fierce but friendly rivalry during the prestigious New Zealand Skiing Masters.
The Employment Relations Authority has found in favour of a former Queenstown courier driver who was not paid wages or reimbursed for her cellphone calls.
A 20-year-old Arrowtown woman who yesterday walked away from what was described as one of the worst crash scenes in the area for 24 years has been cited by police as an "excellent example of not to drink and drive".
A record number of hot beverages were bought at Coronet Peak during the school holidays, with coffees and hot chocolates proving popular for snow bunnies.
Potholes have begun to appear across the Queenstown Lakes District with warmer weather in the district and the start of the annual thaw.
A man who escaped from the back of the Motueka Police Station on Wednesday may have been involved in three commercial burglaries in Queenstown this month, police say.
The battle lines have been drawn in the Otago Country premier rugby competition.
There will be no repeat tomorrow of the Kiwi ingenuity used last weekend to keep Arrowtown's Jack Reid Park frost free.
For most of us, one winter a year is enough.
A welcome snowfall was predicted this week, just in time for the first session of the Slopestyle Series at The Remarkables, on Sunday.
The 66th winner of the Otaki Shield - a Scottish-based scholarship - bungy-jumped headfirst into his ambassadorial duties in New Zealand on Sunday.
Passengers flying on Jetstar out of Queenstown Airport now have the option of halving their check-in time.
Motorsport enthusiasts will have the opportunity to get close to one of the sport's most celebrated sons tomorrow, when Greg Murphy speaks at the Skyline Gondola and Restaurant.
It could be said the story of Arrowtown resident John Mowat and the three bridges he has built in Macetown began in 1987.
Queenstown Lakes District Council parks manager Gordon Bailey yesterday labelled the theft of parts of a rata tree from Pigeon Island disgusting and a "real insult to the community".
New Zealand's high rate of head injury, young people at risk of strokes and the anomalies in the ACC system will be discussed in Queenstown this week during the biennial Australia and New Zealand rehabilitation conference.
