A barbeque and furnishings for his new home are on Melbourne poker player Julian Cohen's shopping list after he was crowned New Zealand Poker Tour Queenstown Skycity Alpine Adventure Champion and won $73,630 at the weekend.
Delta believes a private digger operator is responsible for knocking out an overhead powerline, on McDonnell Rd, Arrowtown, sparking a small grass fire and cutting power to more than 300 homes and businesses for almost three hours yesterday.
Wakatipu pupils from four schools will perform kapa haka in central Queenstown on Wednesday, to celebrate Maori Language Week this week.
The strong relationship between seven southern runanga and the Department of Conservation's (Doc) Wakatipu area office was celebrated on Friday with the permanent loan of a culturally priceless pounamu set on a specially crafted wooden plinth.
St Joseph's School board chairman Rene Kampman says National Standards are one way of pushing the boundaries of learning in New Zealand.
Stay focused, listen to your band mates and perform for your audience, are the words of advice given by the co-director of Smokefreerockquest to high school acts entering the Central Otago regional final in Queenstown tomorrow night.
Five Queenstown artists have been selected to display their works from more than 900 entries at the forthcoming New Zealand Art Show, in Wellington.
A Queenstown actress, playing six multinational characters, aims to raise awareness of domestic violence in the Wakatipu and will give all proceeds to a refuge for abuse survivors.
About 60 entrants, most of them boys, and about 50 family and supporters enjoyed the first of the 2010 season's Youth Mini Shred series, at the Remarkables on Saturday.
Four Wakatipu High School acts practised their original songs on Friday night, in preparation for the Smokefreerockquest 2010 Central Otago regional final, on Saturday.
Almost 20 musical acts from high schools around the Southern Lakes and Central Otago will vie for $1150 worth of musical equipment and a shot at the national final's grand prizes at the weekend, in the Smokefreerockquest 2010 Central Otago regional final.
About 40 pupils in years 3 and 4 start their new life of learning at Queenstown's cutting-edge primary school today.
Old buoys, tin cans, rusted tools, the odd anchor, a tattered 1961 paperback copy of Jules Verne's For the Flag and the original New Zealand Railways Shipping Office sign were among the historical artefacts rescued, and placed in safekeeping by the Wakatipu Community Maritime Preservation Society on Saturday.
New flights from the Gold Coast to Queenstown revealed this week could have the knock-on effect of revitalising the dormant Japanese snowsports market in the Wakatipu.
French-owned Sofitel Queenstown Hotel & Spa's new Left Bank Cafe opened in "a happy coincidence" on Bastille Day, on Wednesday, sales and marketing director Tanya Dennis said.
Queenstown's Team Goodbye Pork Pie has warmed up for the 2010 Mongol Rally by clocking up 6400km touring the United Kingdom.
Jetstar is backing Queenstown Airport Corporation's proposals to allow flying at night and to extend operating hours to open up new tourism opportunities in Australia.
Wakatipu High School acts dominate the field for the upcoming Smokefreerockquest 2010 Central Otago regional final, which will be held in Queenstown for the first time next weekend.
An extra 72,000 seats into Queenstown will come on stream every year, when Jetstar launches its direct Gold Coast and Melbourne flights to the resort, priced from $199 one-way, and expands its Auckland to Queenstown service, all from mid-December.
Jetstar was surprised by the timing of the $27.7 million "strategic alliance" between Auckland and Queenstown airports last week, but the almost quarter-share deal did not affect the low-fare carrier's plans, chief executive Bruce Buchanan said yesterday.
