Department of Conservation (Doc) fire investigators have narrowed down the areas where the vegetation fire on Tuesday may have started and are gathering information from witnesses on the pattern and travel of the blaze.
Pupils need to develop core values in an era when face-to-face interaction is diminishing, Southern Lakes Christian School principal Melody Hart says. The principal and trustee tells James...
The variety of music at the ASB Queenstown JazzFest is what keeps New Zealand's foremost jazz trombonist and big band leader Rodger Fox coming back for more.
All 163 year 11 pupils at Wakatipu High School had an unexpected day off yesterday as 39 of the school's 50 teachers took industrial action.
Queenstown Montessori is expanding its roll to 38, which will ease demand for pre-school places and give Wakatipu parents choice in the style of education they want for their children, the owner says.
A runaway trailer smashed into a parked car outside the Queenstown District Court on Wednesday.
Department of Conservation (Doc) fire investigators from Queenstown, Alexandra and Dunedin are keeping an open mind on the cause of the large vegetation fire near Queenstown that posed a potential risk to homes on Tuesday.
About 25 residents at Alpine Retreat, near Queenstown, were asked to evacuate and communities in Moke Lake, Wilson Bay and Closeburn were alerted when a 400m by 100m bush fire burned at Seven Mile for almost 12 hours yesterday.
Power lines whipped around in strong winds are "strongly suspected" by the Department of Conservation Wakatipu (Doc) to have sparked the bush and pine tree fire near Queenstown yesterday which forced the evacuation of at least 25 nearby residents.
Strong ethics and morals better equip children to succeed in life, though peer pressure may challenge their beliefs when they grow older, Southern Lakes Christian School board of trustees chairman Roland Lemaire-Sicre says. In the first of our new series interviewing the members of the board, Mr Lemaire-Sicre tells James Beech the school's refit and rebranding will benefit the Wakatipu community.
Evacuated residents have been allowed to return to their homes as firefighters bring a scrub fire near Queenstown under control.
The need for equity to meet the rapid growth of Queenstown Airport was mentioned in the final talk of the 2010 NZ Airport Conference on Friday, but the controversial decision to sell almost a quarter of the airport's shares to Auckland International Airport Ltd (AIAL) was not.
New Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden and all councillors will be sworn in to office in a public ceremony on Tuesday, October 26.
The popular 32km Routeburn Track is complete again for the first time since the Israeli bridge was washed away by flooding in April.
Literary interpretations of the theme "earth and water" have been "amazing" and the calibre of original fiction writing has been excellent, the organiser of the inaugural Queenstown Creative Writing Group short story writing competition says.
Theatre lovers can expect a lot of laughs and topical New Zealand themes when the hit satiric play Le Sud plays tonight and tomorrow night, writer Dave Armstrong says.
Back-country trampers enjoying a spring trek could be directly in the path of an avalanche even though they could not see any snow, the Department of Conservation (Doc) warned yesterday, before the Great Walks Season opens on Tuesday, October 26.
A Queenstown art gallery is using a delivery vehicle with a head-turning difference - a rare British 1950 Daimler Consort named "Doris".
A packed house of 61 Pink Ribbon Day supporters and movie fans, many wearing pink, raised $1575 towards the street appeal for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
A sketch of the Beehive by Prime Minister John Key is one of about 120 pieces of art donated by artists, children's books illustrators and celebrities for an auction to raise funds for Plunket Arrowtown.
