The Queenstown Lakes District Council has signed a tourism agreement with the South Korean city of Ulsan, explicitly to attract "mountain tourists".
The steep 13km access road to the Remarkables ski area, usually conquered by vehicles, will be tackled by a team of staff members from the skifield today in a Daffodil Day fundraiser.
NZSKI lift operator Megan Burke is stocking up on eggs and spoons before Father's Day on Sunday.
Carrying 8kg of fire-fighting equipment, firefighters raced up and down Coronet Peak, without a fire in sight.
While the weather put a dampener on the 2012 Remarkables Parklife Invitational rail jam in downtown Queenstown on Saturday night, snow was falling on the Remarkables skifield.
More than $16,000 was raised for the Dunedin neurosurgery campaign in Arrowtown on Saturday night, making it the largest fundraiser for the cause in the Queenstown area.
Hidden in decaying old logs in backyards and even firewood could be huhu grubs: tasty and nutritious - especially for tuatara and kiwi.
Base jumping daredevil Chuck Berry's presentation at the Winter Games Film Festival during the weekend was so popular it could have been held twice, Reading Cinema Queenstown manager Rebekah Moore said.
Despite the rain in downtown Queenstown, participants in this year's Gay Ski Week were "very happy" when they realised it was snowing on the Remarkables, organiser Sally Whitewoods said.
With the addition of a fire-powered bath, living in a snow cave has become more homelike for Queenstown man Blair Whitaker.
Come the first day of spring on Saturday, up to 150 Wakatipu and Cromwell cats will be the subjects of a free desexing campaign.
In what could be an event unique to Coronet Peak, the skifield's lift operators and very own Cupid will be pairing potential couples on the chairs of the Coronet Express this Friday.
While completing their "summer" training programme at Coronet Peak, the Russian men's and women's alpine ski teams have also been competing in a transtasman competition.
The final race in a five-race cyclocross series was held yesterday. Racers have negotiated frozen mud and ice since the series began in June, but no snow.
A Queenstown developer is appealing the consent granted this week for a $125 million retail complex on an excavated site, dubbed "Henderson's hole", at the main entrance to the resort.
Queenstown Lakes District Council has responded to milder temperatures and will only be posting road reports as conditions require.
The number of competitors in inter-university sporting events has been set back by the introduction of voluntary student association membership say organisers, who hope numbers will return to their former glory over time.
A "unique" combination of ski and snowboard rail jam and freestyle motocross (FMX) is scheduled for this Saturday at the Queenstown Recreation Ground.
Aspiring Avalanche Dogs, based at Treble Cone in Wanaka, has been "blown away" with the fundraising effort from Blair Whitaker, who is living in a snow cave for a month in aid of the charity.
This week, Olympic attention will be turned towards winter sports athletes, with the first qualifying events for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Wanaka.
