A wintry blast bringing snow to surrounding mountains and hills in the Queenstown Lakes district this week is a reminder motorists need to drive to the conditions, Queenstown Lakes District Council roading manager Ian Marshall says.
With seven weeks left until the 2009 Queenstown Winter Festival, organisers have announced one event has already sold out.
As the curtain lifts tonight on Showbiz Queenstown's season of Les Miserables, it will also rise on the New Zealand musical theatre career of one of its principal actors.
While many businesses are feeling the pinch in Queenstown during difficult economic times, one is developing its fledgling empire, to the delight of the Queenstown Airport Corporation.
Nominations have opened for the 2009 TrustPower Queenstown Lakes District Community Awards.
About 350 real estate agents will be in Queenstown this week during the second part of First National Real Estate's largest two-yearly Australia and New Zealand convention.
Police are appealing to the public to help find the owners of antique jewellery, pocket watches, scales and cufflinks found in Invercargill on Sunday.
Guests at Queenstown's Pinewood Lodge this week could not have been in a safer place, as more than 160 members of the Royal Ghurka Rifles (RGR) were in residence.
Youth crime, with the exception of violence, is decreasing, Chief Youth Court Judge Andrew Becroft said in Queenstown yesterday.
An angry, bankrupted debtor will still have to pay an outstanding bill of $97.25 despite sending the most abusive letter Lakes Environmental (LE) chief executive Hamish Dobbie has received in his 18 months with the company.
Compettition is heating up for this weekend's 32.6km Routeburn Classic adventure run.
A 3km walking and cycling track through the grounds of Millbrook Resort was officially opened this week by Wakatipu Trails Trust chairman and Millbrook member Terry Stevens and new Trails Trust chief executive Kaye Parker, with Trails Trust past chairman John R Wilson by their side.
The latest statistics released by the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) show a total passenger drop of 2% in the nine months ending March 31, 2009, compared with the same period a year earlier.
An improved town and ski area transport system will operate in Queenstown this winter, following a new partnership between NZSki Ltd and Connectabus Queenstown.
In years to come, our stars of stage and screen may well be thanking one of Queenstown's more recent residents.
Four of the six buff weka recently transferred to Stevenson's Peninsula have been found dead, Ngai Tahu weka group spokesman Hoani Langsbury announced yesterday.
Fabulous cocktails, bubbly, gifts, live entertainment, a stunning host, and a slave auction featuring five men willing to do just about anything for charity.
Two of Queenstown Resort College's newest students are also recipients of the college's 2009 national ambassador scholarships, presented by the college annually.
A full new intake of students at the Queenstown Resort College (QRC), including six Australians and two from India and China, completed orientation last week and have now launched into their studies, aiming to become future hospitality and tourism leaders.
The countdown is on for 225 runners who will race from one end of Routeburn Track to the other in the Routeburn Classic adventure race on May 9.
