Queenstown reporter Christina McDonald was dog bait this week and survived to tell the tale. She tells what it is like to be buried alive in snow on the Remarkables skifield and then found.
Scenes of snow settling in Queenstown Mall last year present a striking comparison to this year's mild winter.
Having practised during their break times since the start of term three, 293 Wakatipu High School pupils took to the stage in a house kapa haka and waiata event on Friday.
At the sound of a conch shell, amplified with the help of a microphone, each house filed on to a stage in the school gym watched by fellow pupils, teachers, parents and guests.
Despite winter mountain climbing being the "least popular facet of the sport", 115 climbers have descended on Queenstown and its surrounds in a bid to climb mixed ice and rock.
Conservation Minister Kate Wilkinson must make the final decision on whether to allow the Milford Dart Tunnel, Green Party conservation spokeswoman Eugenie Sage said yesterday.
Two weeks after thieves stole a Star Wars clone trooper from Hugh Clark's store in Stratton House, a clone trooper pilot arrived.
Skiing and snowboarding are not the only ways to enjoy winter snow in Central Otago.
A host of northern hemisphere ski and snowboard teams either have flown or are confirmed to be flying to Southern Lakes skifields for training this winter.
Queenstown man Blair Whitaker has become housebound, because of all the house tours he has been giving visitors to his new ice house, located next to the car park at the Remarkables skifield.
Three representatives from the Glenorchy community will present a petition against the Milford Dart Tunnel to Deputy Prime Minister Bill English in Wellington this morning.
While the United States summer Olympic sport's team is carving up the opposition in London, the country's winter Olympians are carving up the snow slopes on Coronet Peak.
With the Government prepared to contribute towards a purpose-built conference centre in Queenstown, a new study into the feasibility of such a facility has found there is a "good overall business case".
While other regions experienced record rainfall, Queenstown enjoyed record sunshine hours for the month of July.
A snowboarding instructor who was unaware he had been nominated for the 2011 Snowsports Instructor of the Year won the award at a ceremony in Wanaka.
Customers are demanding individually tailored experiences when it comes to buying goods and services, and a New Zealand-born woman has returned to an international company backing this "revolution".
For the past 31 years, about 100 Queenstown skiers have converged on Coronet Peak each Tuesday for a fiercely contested local race series - before going back to work.
Ask masters ski racers why they continue to race and it becomes clear they have a lifelong passion.
In just over two weeks, snow will be trucked to the Queenstown Rec Ground for the Parklife Invitational, which has moved from its former Earnslaw Park location.
About 200 Queenstown people filled the resort's Memorial Hall last night to hear first-hand about the fight against the proposed Milford Dart tunnel and Fiordland Link monorail.
Children and their parents flocked to a day of fun at City Impact Church on Saturday as rain held off.
