Kevin Paul shows Wakatipu Lions Club secretary Lorna Cowan a selection of cheeses from Gibbston Valley Cheese during the club's summer soiree at the newly renovated Queenstown Golf Club at Kelvin Heights last Sunday.
The last of the old sycamore trees in a pre-1900 orchard by the Kawarau River in Gibbston was felled on Saturday to allow room for the remaining trees.
Shrek the celebrity sheep had a long day on Friday, and had to admit he did not want a baa of his scheduled visit to Queenstown on Saturday.
More than 500 netballers in 49 teams from Australia, the Cook Islands, Barbados, Vanuatu and New Zealand braved a cold wind to march in a parade along the Queenstown lakefront as they marked the opening of the Air New Zealand Golden Oldies World Netball Festival in Queenstown.
Jeff Staniland is getting himself familiar with the company he has been chosen to lead.
Business owners in the plumbing and gas-fitting industry are blowing the whistle on unlicensed tradesmen allegedly operating in the Wakatipu area.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday adopted a new liquor bylaw for town centres across the region, to be enforced from December 1.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council's "employee expenses" bill was $500,000 over budget in the last year, bringing a rebuke for staff from Cr Vanessa van Uden at yesterday's council meeting.
A 10-day run of jazz and events wrapped up yesterday, as the 2009 ASB Queenstown JazzFest came to an end.
Tomorrow's jazz greats were on show at a well-attended event at the Millennium Hotel ballroom on Sunday evening, when the winners of this year's NZONE Emerging Talent Competition were chosen.
Skyline Enterprises, one of Queenstown's major tourist operators, is going through a "changing of the guard" in its management positions.
Improvements to public transport in Queenstown have stalled due to a lack of response to an application for funding from New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA).
Peter Doyle wants a change of scenery.
A Queenstown adventure activity on Bobs Peak is set to open before Christmas.
