Sunday's Queenstown Winter Festival action had a gastronomic theme that ranged from children digging for ice cream to grown-ups appreciating the subtleties of wine and food combinations.
The 40th running of the Dog Derby at Coronet Peak proved to be a slippery slope for about 60 dogs and their owners last week.
The broadcast of Australia's top-rating breakfast television show from Queenstown during the opening days of the town's Winter Festival has brought priceless exposure, a tourism chief says.
Queenstown Winter Festival events ranged from the wacky at Coronet Peak to gloved combatants whacking each other in the head for a good cause on Saturday.
Arrowtown relied on stalwart defence to prevail over a spirited Upper Clutha A, while Wakatipu made easier work of Maniototo in Central Otago Premier action at the weekend.
The owners of Queenstown's newest restaurant say there is nothing else like it in New Zealand.
Queenstown Winter Festival organisers are ''rapt'' with the public's response to the 40th annual edition of the event.
The drink-driving message is not getting through in Queenstown, despite a booze bus operating in the town for the second weekend in a row, police say.
Years of frustrations for motorists using the single-lane Kawarau Falls Bridge will be over sooner than expected after approval yesterday for a replacement to be built.
Three building projects expected to come to fruition in the coming months are giving supporters of the Paradise Trust renewed hope after fire destroyed its historic homestead a month ago.
They say every dog has its day, and that day was in Queenstown yesterday when about 60 dogs and their owners ran down a snowy mountain.
Two agencies representing Queenstown's tourism, commercial and industrial sectors are urging Queenstown Lakes District councillors to vote to proceed with the council's convention centre proposal today.
The charitable trust behind the historic Paradise Homestead destroyed by fire last month has launched a website aimed at helping it meet expenses until a new building is constructed.
The unbeaten Arrowtown rugby team expects a big challenge from a desperate Clyde-Earnscleugh this weekend.
Real Journeys Queenstown operations manager Luke Taylor (left) and TSS Earnslaw engineer Ken McAuliffe show some of the several tonnes of metal cut out of the 102-year-old vessel so far as part of a preventive maintenance project that began last month at its Kelvin Heights slipway.
An Ashburton College team managed what Team New Zealand couldn't do by taking the lead early and holding on to win when it competed in the Central South Island Otago Daily Times Extra! current events quiz in Timaru yesterday.
They came, they answered questions and they conquered: a Darfield High School team has won the years 9 and 10 section of the Otago Daily Times Extra! current events quiz in Timaru after travelling the furthest to get there.
After an unprecedented playoff lasting 11 questions, two teams from Ashburton Intermediate were named the joint winners of the Otago Daily Times Extra! Current Events Quiz for years 7 and 8 in Timaru last night.
A meeting yesterday of about 250 investors and supporters of Allan Hubbard demanded the Government immediately produce evidence of fraud or halt action against the Timaru businessman.
Timaru Hospital's plan to introduce a part-charge for physiotherapy patients to offset a reduction in ACC funding has been put on hold at the request of the Ministry of Health.
