One of the hopeful buyers of the historic Kingston Flyer steam train spent the New Year period in the Southern Lakes district trying to raise support and funds to save the train.
A rise in the number of fires in chimneys and ventilation systems at restaurants and other commercial buildings has prompted the New Zealand Fire Service in Queenstown to try a more proactive approach.
Campgrounds around Queenstown were filling up yesterday as visitors continued to arrive for New Year celebrations but the resort's holiday parks are still quieter than in previous years.
Stew Burt, director of the Queenstown grocery store Destination Organic, tells Henrietta Kjaer about his worst work experience and how it has affected his current job.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is planning several projects for January which will involve felling unsafe trees between Queenstown and Arrowtown.
A brilliant day and magnificent setting made for a spectacular day's competition in the Wakatipu Yacht Club's Christmas regatta on Frankton Arm yesterday.
A helicopter was called in to search for missing people after a small boat was spotted drifting overturned near the A. J. Hackett Bungy Bridge on the Kawarau River.
Queenstown's holiday parks are usually fully booked well in advance of the busy Christmas-New Year period but this year bookings have come late, and there is still space available for campers.
The board of directors at Destination Queenstown has chosen the new chief executive to lead the marketing of the resort.
The Arrowtown scouts celebrated the end of 2009 with an award ceremony - and by getting themselves dirty on a mud slide.
Queenstown Chamber of Commerce chairman Alastair Porter says the chamber's public call for the Queenstown Lakes District Council's chief executive to be replaced has not had a big effect on the chamber, although he concedes one member may have left over the issue.
Veteran adventurer Graeme Dingle is stopping over in Queenstown this week during his quest to raise awareness of youth issues.
After a launch party Wednesday evening, the staff of the new Post Office Cafe in Ballarat St were eager to welcome customers for breakfast on Thursday morning.
Learning French moved into a new practical dimension for six year 11 pupils at Wakatipu High School, when they swapped the classroom for Noumea in New Caledonia on a nine-day study trip.
Christmas will be less exciting for 12-year-old Oisin Quinlan-Thompson and his sister Clora (10), since the boat they were supposed to share as a present has been stolen from a boat trailer at the Wakatipu Yacht Club at Kelvin Heights.
A visitor accommodation facility based in rebuilt shipping containers could open in Queenstown before the end of March, but on a smaller scale than previously planned.
Year 9 students at Wakatipu High School got a taste of working in the media when they held their "Journalism Day" last week.
Queenstown's newest adventure activity, Ziptrek Ecotour, opened on Friday. Reporter Henrietta Kjaer pushed her boundaries by trying the tour on Wednesday evening - and found it more amusing than scary.
Queenstown police intend to take a hard line against trail bike riders who ride bikes without current registration and warrant of fitness.
"Discovery day" was a fun Christmas celebration for year 0 and 1 at St Josephs school last Friday.
