Southern Stampede captain Simon Glass will miss tonight's game against the West Auckland Admirals because of suspension - but it could have been worse.
The sight of purple and green vessels plying Milford Sound is set to be even more pronounced, with Jucy Cruize Milford Sound yesterday announcing the purchase of a 24-year-old catamaran from fellow tourism operator Southern Discoveries.
Bowstrings that had been worked so hard they were only attached at one end floated up and down, while a sold-out audience thrilled to seemingly impossible violin mastery.
Since winning the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in 2011 Sergey Malov, from Russia, has been enjoying his life as a professional musician.
Their bus stop becomes a baking hot slab in summer and offers no shelter against the rain and snow in winter.
Having captured everything from someone falsely claiming their snowboard had been stolen to a dog stealing designer bread to people involved in serious assaults, the Arrowtown CCTV system is now in need of help itself.
There is an ''odd'' belief in Queenstown that residents leave the resort in their older years, a Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust trustee says.
''Whatever boom New Zealand gets, Queenstown usually gets it on steroids'', Finance Minister Bill English told guests at a post-Budget breakfast event hosted by the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce at the resort's Millennium Hotel yesterday.
Although no-one is suggesting a new two-lane bridge is not needed, appeals related to plans for a new Kawarau Falls bridge have been lodged.
A slip which occurred in January and closed a section of the walking and cycling trail on the Kawarau River bank behind Remarkables Park Shopping Centre could be fixed with help from Remarkables Park Ltd and Shotover Park Ltd.
The idea of SkyCity Entertainment Group operating a convention centre in Queenstown has upset some submitters on the Queenstown Lakes District Council's draft annual plan.
There is ''no plan at this point'' for the Shotover St building gutted by fire on Friday, the man whose company owns the building said yesterday.
Queenstown's tourist scene will continue to increase heartbeats as blood pressure and a haunted house-style fear factory is to open in the next three weeks.
Three council-owned sites in Queenstown are being considered for the resort's proposed convention centre.
Sprinklers are a must in any new building or those being refurbished, New Zealand Fire Service area commander Keith McIntosh yesterday said in a statement, following the Friday fire that destroyed a Shotover St building which had no sprinklers.
In this week's Join The Club, Christina McDonald talks to members of the Wakatipu Pottery Group.
Elements of both the Winter and summer Olympics will feature in the Queenstown Lakes area in August when the third biennial Winter Games are held.
Approval for a 10-house affordable housing development in Arrowtown could be given by the Queenstown Lakes District Council as early as the end of next month.
It is business time for the Southern Stampede, which heads to Auckland to play the Botany Swarm in the opening round of the national league this weekend.
Calls for a proposed 10-house affordable housing development to be ''not here'' were directed at the Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust last night at a public meeting held to inform the Arrowtown community of the plans.
