Queenstown and Dunedin are the priorities for the deployment of ultrafast broadband (UFB), but business owners in other Otago centres could access the fibre running past their doorstep, Chorus says.
Queenstown police are urging motorists to take extra care when driving around the Wakatipu basin as more residents were caught out by ice on Monday morning.
Hay House pupils were the popular winners of the Manaia trophy at Wakatipu High School's annual inter-house haka and waiata competition on Thursday.
Always doing the right thing and trying every day are the qualities of a leader, Chester Rosie says.
The Department of Conservation (Doc) wants more people to take advantage of Otago's 4WD roads and rugged routes and is asking four-wheel-drive enthusiasts to have their say about their hobby.
Local council and district health board elections will be held in the spring, but Southern Lakes residents need to check their enrolment now to make sure they have their say in October.
The Environment Court has declared it has the jurisdiction to hear and determine the notice of appeal on Arrowtown South lodged by two of its landowners.
The restoration of the 136-year-old Arrowtown Jail has been kickstarted with $5000 of proceeds from celebrations last October marking the 150th anniversary of Arrowtown.
A new era in 21st-century education began with the reopening of a block of classrooms at Queenstown Primary School yesterday after a $990,000 upgrade.
The developer behind the proposed Pak'n Save and Mitre 10 Mega project on Frankton Flats has offered a compromise, but the Queenstown Lakes District Council says it has ''no interest'' in debating it through the media.
The Arrowtown Promotion and Business Association (APBA) has hit back at comments made by people opposing the building of affordable housing in Suffolk St, saying Arrowtown is a ''friendly and inclusive community''.
The best use of Frankton Flats for all is the goal of the Queenstown Lakes District Council, the mayor says, in response to criticism the council is blocking big box retailers and the jobs and trade competition they could bring.
Walter Dear Walter (2012), individually hot pressed glass feathers and wings, is one of the works by the Crystal Chain Gang to be exhibited alongside the elegant works of Wellington artist Elizabeth Thomson in Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown.
A buzz is growing in the United Kingdom for Top of the Lake while preparations are made for the New Zealand home entertainment release of Jane Campion's Queenstown-shot series later this year.
The Queenstown Film Society is calling for entries for its third annual Local Short Film Night on September 24.
The Lakes District Museum is going back to the future with a new education officer driving efforts to take its successful history teaching programmes from Arrowtown further north, into Canterbury.
ASB Queenstown customer services officers Clare Boanas (left) and Kaylyn McBrearty (right) teamed up with St John Wakatipu Health Shuttle driver Claudia Faichney to collect much-needed cash from Coronet Peak visitors for St John at the start of the emergency service's nationwide appeal week last month.
Tourism New Zealand (TNZ) promotes almost 50 adventure activities in the Southern Lakes in its first mobile app, ''Essential New Zealand''.
Full repairs will be made this week to the traffic light system at the one-lane Kawarau Falls bridge which caused rush hour traffic delays of up to 45 minutes on Thursday.
St John area chaplain the Rev Reg Weeks, of Wanaka (left), with St John Wakatipu area committee chairman Marty Black, of Queenstown, and St John senior order member Ian Rae, of Lake Hawea, blesses the new $240,000 4WD first-response ambulance, its officers and its patients in a ceremony held inside the ambulance station in Frankton yesterday.
