Split Enz co-founder Mike Chunn has bolstered his support of young Wakatipu musical talent by offering to talk about his extraordinary career at a fundraising dinner and share his expertise in a special youth workshop.
"Exciting" is how Queenstown Lakes civic and tourism leaders are describing the confirmation this week the second biennial Winter Games will be held between August 13 and 28 next year.
Innovative marketing and incentives to encourage public use are needed for the new bus services being trialled, but the high cost of fares and the long time it takes to travel between destinations were also acknowledged by a Queenstown Lakes District Council subcommittee yesterday.
High-quality teaching, smaller classes and well-resourced classrooms improve a child's education, not national standards, and education should be better funded, Arrowtown School board of trustees staff representative Sue Buckenham tells James Beech.
A quarter of New Zealanders who experience a stroke each year are aged under 65, the Stroke Foundation says, before Stroke Awareness Week begins on Monday.
The proposed refurbishment of the Tap bar in Arrowtown, which will affect public use of the corner of Wiltshire and Buckingham Sts, was given cautious support by the Queenstown Lakes District Council utilities committee yesterday.
The artist renowned for creating Chalice, in Cathedral Sq, Christchurch, is one of two artists giving free public talks about their work at Milford Galleries Queenstown on Friday.
Sending a Wakatipu delegation to the Special Olympics New Zealand National Summer Games in Dunedin in 2013 is behind the launching of a special sports club in Queenstown.
The beginning of a "truly Remarkable story" was celebrated when Remarkables Primary School was officially opened to the community on Friday.
In the second of a new series celebrating multi-cultural Queenstown and in the middle of Maori Language Week, James Beech hears from Maori residents who call Wakatipu home.
Boys from a Melbourne single-sex Catholic school were caught red-faced and red-handed with $6000 worth of clothing and souvenirs on Saturday, after a Queenstown shoplifting spree.
Southland Mayor Frana Cardno and the Ministry of Tourism will next Wednesday sign a $4 million funding deal to start and complete the first stage of the Around the Mountains cycle trail.
The quality and passion of teachers improve a pupil's education, not assessment, Arrowtown School board of trustees parent representative Grant McCulloch says.
The first new state primary school to open in the lower South Island since the 1970s faced an estimated $75,000 electricity bill for the year because Government funding did not stretch to pay for a sustainable power system, Education Minister Ann Tolley was told in Queenstown yesterday.
It is always a thrill to see the Wakatipu on the silver screen - be it Hugh Jackman blowing up Paradise in Wolverine, or Rutger Hauer sipping pinot noir at Peregrine Wines in Brideflight - but the basin co-starring in a Bollywood extravaganza?
Wellington melodic pop-rockers Supermodel remind New Zealanders what they have been missing while the quartet has been wowing the United Kingdom.
Arrowtown School principal Robin Harris believes National Standards have a place in the school system, but, as he tells James Beech, Minister of Education Anne Tolley needs to listen to teachers.
Keeping pupils and staff up to date in the ever-changing world of technology and maintaining a high level of support within the community are two of the biggest challenges facing the Arrowtown School board of trustees. James Beech talks to board deputy chairman Don Hazlett.
Visitor satisfaction with Queenstown is higher than ever, a survey shows.
A sizzling selection of films from Brazil are a gift to the large Brazilian community in Queenstown and stories all New Zealanders can relate to, the festival director says.
