Queenstown and Arrowtown residents have been advised by the Otago Regional Council to consider updating their heating appliances and improving their home insulation ahead of the Air for Otago (Air Plan) becoming operative from January 1.
It is likely trail-bike riders and four-wheel-drive owners will see blue and green in the Macetown and Skippers area this summer when a 4WD compliance operation is repeated by Department of Conservation and police staff.
A major refurbishment is planned for the Skyline's main function venue, the Wakatipu Room, next year.
Mayor Clive Geddes used his casting vote yesterday to keep the Queenstown Lakes District Council's affordable housing ambitions alive.
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has found there is "no significant safety risk" on the Kawarau River resulting from a second commercial operator gaining a non-notified resource consent, but have advised the Queenstown Lakes District Council to review its Resource Management Act (RMA) detail, to include the total number of craft operating on the river.
Two Queenstown men were arrested and charged with assault following an incident at a touch rugby game in the resort on Monday night.
Like all good public meetings, the one held last night in Queenstown to discuss "supporting sport in the Wakatipu" ended with a round of applause and a move forward.
A new community fund, totalling $75,000, has been launched by Meridian and is destined for three Northern Southland communities around the White Hill wind farm.
Some came with make-up perfectly applied; others preferred the natural look; some were dressed to the nines while others were in work uniforms on their lunch breaks.
A complex providing accommodation for a fire brigade, St John, health professionals and a community policing service, at a cost of about $300,000, is on the cards for Kingston.
Like L&P in Paeroa, a bike race scheduled for next year may just become world famous in Wakatipu.
Australian visitors may well be our target market, but getting the Aussies to spend their money crossing the Tasman may take some work.
"Assume nothing - always ask a local" was the advice from the tourism industry yesterday to freedom campers this summer.
Queenstown Police's Facebook page has experienced a 1028% growth in "fans" following a story in yesterday's Otago Daily Times.
Millbrook Resort, near Arrowtown, has been named third best overseas golf course behind St Andrews Links in Scotland and New Zealand's Kauri Cliffs by a prestigious Australian travel magazine.
Killing wilding pines which threaten high country landscapes and native vegetation in the Mt Aurum Recreation Reserve will begin shortly.
Justin van Wichen is the type of mate you'd like to think you had. The type of mate who is about to cycle 2200km, from Nelson to Bluff and return, to support Dave Cochrane, a friend in clinical remission with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
A new funding source for regional business initiatives could help to bring more tourists from China to Otago, help set up a new film studio and assist a Dunedin business incubator to explore the demand for business support, Otago Forward chairman Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes said yesterday.
Queenstown police have turned to the social networking site Facebook as another way of catching criminals in their area.
Scott Columb could be considered one of the lucky ones. While many of us spend our working week counting down the hours until it's time to knock off for the day or week, and dreaming of what we might do differently in our next life, Columb loves every second of his life and wouldn't change it for the world.
