Arnold Schwarzenegger and Universal Studios are reportedly considering Peter Jackson's Wellington film studio for use on the sequel to Conan the Barbarian. James Beech opines about the benefits of them coming further south.
Tiki Taane says he cannot wait to ''come down and party with all you beautiful people'' at the Shotover Sunshine Festival near Queenstown on February 9.
Top of the Lake, film-maker Jane Campion's first work in her native New Zealand in two decades and shot in and around Queenstown, is garnering praise from influential Hollywood critics before it premieres on UKTV.
Evidence calling for the long-awaited new two-lane Kawarau Falls bridge will be presented by the Queenstown Lakes District Council at a hearing next month.
An estimated 200 Tourism Industry Association (TIA) member businesses around the country can expect to see a marked reduction in their 2013-14 ACC levies, from $3.48 to $0.84 per $100 of payroll, following a review of their risk levels requested by the association.
Southern film-makers are enjoying a lucrative summer.
Today 11am: Queenstown Art Society members Samantha Collyer, with collaged papers, Karyn Hitchman, with paintings, and Sue Wademan, with textiles, created 60 original interpretations of Wakatipu and New Zealand landscapes for their new exhibition ''Postcards of Aotearoa'', now on in the Cloakroom Gallery, on the corner of Stanley and Ballarat Sts. The gallery is open 11am-4pm, except Sundays, and the exhibition runs until February 19.
A swathe of wilding pines in Skippers Canyon near Queenstown is the target of a new offensive by the Department of Conservation (Doc) in the war against the introduced tree which is a menace to biodiversity.
Work is expected to begin today on a 60m long temporary portal at the Homer Tunnel, on the road to Milford, in a $1.5 million bid to improve safety for road users in the event of rock falls.
Patrons at the Remarkables Market on Saturday enjoyed an exclusive preview of Twisted Tales, the latest promenade theatrical production from Remarkable Theatre.
A West Coast artist will introduce his debut Queenstown exhibition on Friday. Paul Haywood, of Karamea, presents Poles Apart, his collection of five mixed media, in Kapa New Zealand Design Gallery, Rees St, at 5.30pm to 7.30pm.
The Queenstown Memorial Centre will reopen in style after its $3.1 million upgrade with a double bill of ukulele entertainment to thrill music lovers of all ages.
Raw country music with poetic and political lyrics are the hallmarks of the Eastern, and Wakatipu music fans will hear their ''bare knuckle'' music for themselves when the hard-working Lyttelton band arrives in Arrowtown.
Guest nights in Queenstown in November 2012 were on a par with the same month in 2011, Statistics New Zealand says.
More than 20 skateboarders from throughout the lower half of the South Island impressed judges and spectators with their grinds, twists, flips and ollies at the 2013 Summer Sk8 Sesh in the Queenstown Gardens.
Players involved in the proposed convention centre project for Queenstown are staying tight-lipped about the parties who want to be involved and how it might be funded.
Queenstown Cat Rescue trustee and co-founder Ruth de Reus (left) and trustee Mayumi Rowcroft hold two of the five kittens given new homes by Wakatipu residents during the trust's first kitten adoption day this year, at Mrs de Reus' Fernhill residence on Saturday.
More than $5000 is thought to have been raised for an Arrowtown baby, cancer battler Sydney Boden, as the result of a popular family fun day in the village on Saturday.
The closure of the Dunedin branch of Immigration New Zealand should not affect the Queenstown branch and its service for overseas visitors applying for work visas, the department says.
The ''gourmet guru'' of India has praised New Zealanders for their hospitality during his whistle-stop fact-finding tour of New Zealand, which took in Queenstown and Cromwell at the weekend.
