A new $10 million international arrivals hall and baggage reclaim area are among several developments planned for Queenstown Airport to cater for phenomenal growth in passenger numbers. The...
A paintbox given by her mother when Jennifer Majeske was recovering from injuries after falling off her motorcycle six years ago, launched her fulltime professional artistic career and led to success at the Aspiring Art Awards this week.
New attractions will join traditional favourites when the 96th Lake Hayes A and P Show returns to the Lake Hayes Pavilion and Show Ground tomorrow.
"Who has to get killed for them to do something?" an Arrowtown mother asked, at the scene of a motor-vehicle collision involving her young son this week, the latest incident at the crash-prone intersection of Glenda Dr and Frankton-Ladies Mile Highway.
At least 10 shearers will compete for the title of best in the Wakatipu at tomorrow's Lake Hayes A and P Show shearing competition.
Trampers on the popular McKellar Saddle Track, near the head of Lake Wakatipu, will find 2.4km more enjoyable to walk and enhanced hut accommodation waiting for them, once upgrades by the Department of Conservation (Doc) are complete.
New direct commercial flights between China and Auckland are expected to mean more tourists for "strategic alliance" partner Queenstown Airport and the wider resort, airport and tourism chiefs say.
A 46-year old Bluff man was in a "comfortable and satisfactory condition" in Invercargill Hospital yesterday after he had been thrown from a van, in which he was a passenger, when it left the road near Te Anau Downs, about 4.30pm on Sunday.
The first resumed commercial trip by Thunder Jet was fully booked with tourists and safely rode on a wave of "overwhelming" public support, the operators said yesterday.
A new generation of campers is enjoying Queenstown camping grounds this season, but some late-teenaged campers had to be thrown out for drunken behaviour.
Thunder Jet will operate thrill rides on the Kawarau River from today after an Environment Court judge unofficially told the company it could resume commercial operations after a two-and-a-half-year legal challenge by rival Kawarau Jet.
Melodies sung and played by a family-based troupe from Wellington will grace Glenorchy and an art gallery near Arrowtown this month.
Arrowtown favourite the Lynch Mob returns to Cecil Peak next month for its unique rock concert in the sky.
Queenstown tourism leaders say demand over the traditionally busy festive period was slightly greater year on year, but that the makeup of visitors changed, with more domestic visitors making up for drops in those from the United Kingdom and the United States.
TODAY: 6pm: Queenstown duo A.N.D., otherwise known as Queenstown brothers Dave and Anthony Waldock, perform at Dux de Lux. Free entry.
9pm: Rock trio Steriogram play new single Moving On and more fresh sounds from their latest album at Revolver, as part of their 11-date national tour. Tickets $20 from the venue and Eventfinder, or $25 at the door. R18.
A chapter of Wakatipu history has been chronicled by an author who was born, raised and toiled all his working life in a vanishing farming community.
Winning Telecom's art competition for the cover of the 2011 Otago Yellow Pages for the second time prompted a Queenstown artist to generate her debut exhibition and hold it at Amisfield Winery.
Hundreds of residents and holidaymakers are expected to descend on Arrowtown for the traditional Post Office Fundraising Market Day, on Monday, December 27.
Two Queenstown sisters say they want to bring their own personalities to the luxury hotel they took charge of this week.
A multi-agency presence including the police will be felt in Queenstown over the weekend when the second stage of the transtasman Operation Unite alcohol-reduction campaign is implemented.
