A young southern chef is well on the way to international culinary success after being chosen to represent New Zealand in the World Junior Chefs Challenge in Santiago, Chile, next year.
Despite a proposed Queenstown Lakes District Council plan change regarding the Arrowtown growth boundary being discussed behind closed doors last week, it was expected the issue would be aired in public this month during the full council meeting.
"Waste champions" are being invited to enter the 2009 Queenstown Lakes District Council Zero Waste Awards, council solid waste manager Stefan Borowy said.
An aspiration to make designer brands accessible inspired fashion expert Anna White to create online store Capolla.com, which now has a showroom in Queenstown.
Fire restrictions in parts of the Southern Rural Fire District, which covers Southland, will be lifted from today.
About 150 soldiers from the Royal Gurkha Rifles climbed the level 3 Via Ferrata route near Queenstown with Climbing Queenstown last week.
A-League football is coming to Queenstown this winter, with the announcement of a pre-season match between the Wellington Phoenix and Melbourne Victory as part of the 2009 Queenstown Winter Festival.
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.
