It has been 12 months since one of New Zealand's most highly regarded artists exhibited in Queenstown, but Nigel Brown's latest offering - Conversation - is expected to impress art lovers and historians.
Three former Wakatipu High School pupils, who bought one of Dunedin's most popular student bars in 2004, then expanded and diversified their company, hope to bring their Cook Bros growing empire to Queenstown.
Does happily ever after exist? It's the question audiences at Good Value Productions' latest offering Into The Woods will be asked.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has made good its promise to review its rating and funding system every three years, seeking feedback from the community and "anyone who has queried" the rates structure since the last review in 2005.
Tourism New Zealand took a slightly different approach with its latest 100% Pure campaign.
The Athol Community Development Area (CDA) sub-committee has not endorsed the Southland District Council's plan to re-zone the township, which would allow for commercial activities to develop more easily and would have meant fewer restrictions on subdivisions.
Commercial rafting trips on the Shotover River may resume next week after about 30,000 tonnes of rock, which had threatened to slip down a steep cliff for more than a month, finally gave way yesterday.
Lives may be lost as a "direct result" of Mobil NZ's decision to stop providing helicopter fuel supplies at Milford Sound, Southland Civil Defence Emergency Management Group co-ordinator Neil Cruickshank says.
An 18-year-old Australian tourist got more than he bargained for when he attempted to leave Queenstown on Wednesday afternoon with a snowboard he had reported stolen.
The Queenstown District Court has been evacuated this morning after a suspicious package was received on the first floor of the court building.
A world-leading avalanche control programme at Milford has won the "highway version of an Olympic gold medal" in the 2008 International Road Federation (IRF) Achievement Awards.
The Queenstown District Court was the scene of a full-scale emergency services call-out yesterday morning, after a suspicious package was received in the court's administration area, on the first floor of the Stanley St building.
Queenstown without the adrenaline? Sounds like a contradiction in terms, but Destination Queenstown says the travel bible Lonely Planet got it right in its latest edition, released this week, by emphasising there is more to the resort town than its "adventure capital" tag suggests.
The North Otago electricity lines company, Network Waitaki, is now back under full local control - and that should bring financial benefits for its customers, Waitaki Power Trust chairwoman Helen Brookes said yesterday.
Efforts to dislodge the slip above the Shotover River - estimated to comprise 200,000cu m of rock - appear to be having the desired effect, after significant movement was triggered yesterday.
Some of the biggest names in ski racing will be in action on the slopes of Coronet Peak this week during the Japanese FIS races at the Rocky Gully Race Arena.
On the final day of a hearing discussing a proposed plan change to help with affordable community housing in the Lakes District, Remarkables Park Ltd (RPL) counsel John Young said his client opposed the plan change on the basis of "jurisdictional, economic and planning grounds".
More houses were sold in Queenstown last month than in June and sales were also up 19% on July last year.
An ambitious project to build a $170 million tunnel linking Queenstown and Milford Sound is "making progress", according to its developers.
It may have taken motorists by surprise and caused havoc at Queenstown Airport and on main roads, but the snowfall in the resort on Thursday brought smiles to the faces of skiers and snowboarders yesterday.
