While on a tour boat cruise earlier this month, a tourist reported photographing two UFOs above Queenstown, but investigations by the Queenstown Times have revealed a possible explanation.
A French-inspired village with about 200 residential units is proposed for a steep piece of land on Lake Esplanade.
A strong future is being sought for the former Arrowtown Borough Council chambers building on Buckingham St as an application has been made to allow seismic strengthening.
In this week's Join The Club, Christina McDonald talks to Arrowtown Shukokai Karate Club instructor Johanna Martensson.
Two new quarantine inspectors will start work at the Queenstown Airport in mid-August as part of a national drive to enhance biosecurity.
With the threat of a judicial review no longer hanging, Queenstown Gateway Ltd has withdrawn its latest resource consent application for its $125 million retail complex as it was essentially the same application as the one granted last year.
A Queenstown police officer says more tourists seem to be driving poorly and coming to the attention of police, and he is responding to a request from a coroner to provide information about how non-New Zealanders acquire New Zealand driver's licences.
Someone or something came out of a plane on Sunday afternoon over Queenstown and landed on Earth, and an international paranormal website is reporting it was two UFOs.
The decision to grant a lease for a food kiosk attached to the Earnslaw Park toilet block has drawn flak, but submissions in support of the Empanada kitchen, which will be serving South American pasties, show support for the plan.
Fifteen years equates to ''literally hundreds'' of changed light bulbs (although the introduction of energy efficient bulbs has slowed that down), many doors falling off their hinges from high use and countless sports balls reclaimed from roofs.
The Arrowtown Bulls hit second gear during the second half of their game against Upper Clutha in Wanaka on Saturday, scoring 25 points in 40 minutes.
With her oldest daughter due to be married in January, Janice Keenan, of Gore, came to the Southern Lakes Wedding Show to support her, and walked out with a wedding package worth over $20,000.
A draft Arrowtown-Lake Hayes Reserve Management Plan has been approved and the Queenstown Lakes District Council is seeking submissions.
Those disposing of waste which blocks Queenstown Lakes District Council wastewater pumps could soon face legal action and be ordered to pay the unblocking cost.
Careful choreography will be displayed during the scene in Remarkable Theatre's adaptation of Calendar Girls in which middle-aged women and ''nudity'' are mixed.
A new software package to be used at Coronet Peak this season, which opens on June 8, will provide NZSki with data to allow staff to better tune the snow guns - of which there are 213.
With his entourage standing by, the mayor of the South Korean city of Ulsan laid a wreath at Queenstown's Anzac war memorial yesterday.
With her husband appointed acting chief executive of Lakes Environmental less than three weeks ago, Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden has resigned as a director of the council-controlled organisation - which is being absorbed within the council.
In this week's Join The Club, Christina McDonald talks to Willem Ebbinge, of the Queenstown Junior Football Club.
A multicultural young community exists in the heart of Queenstown, and the school it thrives in is doing all it can to foster and promote its international contingent.
