There is only one candidate challenging incumbent Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden, but there are 14 contesting six Wakatipu ward places and seven contesting the Wanaka ward's three.
A decent, or even satisfactory ending, would not have gone amiss in Riddick's latest show of guns and glory.
As the Queenstown Lakes District Council voted unanimously yesterday to keep the dream of a convention centre for the CBD alive, a private developer vowed to lodge consent for a competing centre in Frankton by year's end.
The chance to have your original ''pint-sized'' play performed in Queenstown and Tenby, in Wales, is being offered by the Remarkable Theatre.
Starting up a new business and ensuring its success takes a strong backbone, Dart River Jet founder Neil Ross can tell you.
More information and further consultation has been requested from the couple behind a proposal to set up a hot tub business in Fernhill.
The Wakatipu played host to the fifth round of the Benchmark Homes cycling series on Saturday.
Queenstown Lakes District Council's former community services manager Paul Wilson talks to Christina McDonald about his time with the council.
The Otago Daily Times is profiling mayoral candidates in Otago's heartland. Today, Christina McDonald talks to Al Angus, standing in Queenstown Lakes.
Education Minister Hekia Parata was unable to attend the New Zealand HomeBased Childcare Association's conference in Queenstown on Saturday, but through a representative she issued a challenge to delegates.
A major slip overnight on State Highway 6 between the Gates of Haast Bridge and Haast Pass Summit means the section of road will be closed until at least Monday.
A recommendation the Queenstown Lakes District Council lead development of a convention centre at a site known as Lakeview will be discussed at an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday.
The Otago Daily Times is profiling mayoral candidates in Otago's heartland. Today, Christina McDonald talks to Vanessa van Uden, standing in Queenstown Lakes.
Ice hockey players in suits on skates delivering beverages will be a highlight, but the spotlights will be on Dorothy, her friends and her foes.
Residents' and ratepayers' satisfaction with the Queenstown Lakes District Council is high and an annual council survey has produced one of the best results in a decade.
Wood-fired hot tubs overlooking Lake Wakatipu could be Queenstown's latest offering to adrenaline junkies needing to let their muscles recover and leisurely tourists wanting the views but not the adrenaline.
Audiences have been told a Queenstown convention centre was first mooted 20 years ago, but the idea did not really gain momentum until the Queenstown Winter Festival of 2011 when Prime Minister John Key endorsed it.
The popularity of push scooters as a fun and active method to get to school has inspired a safety workshop, which was run for the first time in the South Island this week at Frankton.
She will soon fly to a glacier in Europe to resume ski training ahead of her Winter Olympics bid, but popular violinist and skier Vanessa-Mae had her first competitive ski race at Coronet Peak.
People worried an affordable housing precinct in Queenstown will be lost implored the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday not to allow a proposed $50 million convention centre to be built on the Lakeview land where more than 100 people live in low-rent cabins.
