The historic Post and Telegraph Office in Arrowtown made a small profit in the 2011-12 financial year, but trading conditions continue to be tough, its owner-operator the Lakes District Museum reports.
New Zealand Blood will return to Queenstown next month and is encouraging donors to book appointments now to make sure they can contribute.
The weather has been unseasonably changeable for January, according to Queenstown meteorologist David Crow. Summer had not been bad at the start, but January saw a preponderance of low-pressure centres to the east of the South Island and fairly slow-moving anticyclones in the western Tasman Sea, he said.
Queenstown and Auckland-based production company Great Southern Television is behind a new comedy drama with the star of Outrageous Fortune which debuts on TV One later this month.
New Zealand's Got Talent winner Clara van Wel will perform in Gibbston as a special guest when the seventh annual Classic Hits Winery Tour plays at Waitiri Creek on February 19.
Top Indian chef Kunal Kapur is touring Queenstown and Cromwell this weekend after he was presented with the Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship by the New Zealand Government late last year. He is executive sous chef at the luxury hotel Leela Kempinski Gurgaon, and the restaurant he manages won the best Indian restaurant award for the past three years.
A dozen wineries will be featured in a rebranded and revitalised festival with the support of the Queenstown Resort College.
A German soprano is back in Queenstown by popular demand and is set to perform two fundraising opera recitals this month.
It is the Return of the Jedi selector - British DJ Yoda is booked for his second session in Queenstown in February, after his sensational gig last year.
Remarkables Primary School has pushed back its starting date for term one to give Ministry of Education contractors more time to finish the installation of a temporary classroom block and the expansion of the playing field.
The countdown has begun to the eagerly awaited Shotover Sunshine Festival near Queenstown next month. The Wakatipu's homegrown open-air biennial music festival returns for the second time to private land at the Coronet Peak end of Littles Rd on Saturday, February 9.
Top of the Lake, the eagerly-awaited television series from Academy Award-winning New Zealand writer-director Jane Campion which was filmed in and around Queenstown last year, will debut on Sky on UKTV from March 25.
A new wine-making facility, museum and hotel at Gibbston Valley Station is expected to be opened by the end of next year.
Wakatipu residents and visitors are connected to the worldwide web as never before, the ongoing Wi-Fi trial service by Telecom hailed a success, the Queenstown Events Centre launching free internet access permanently last week and the national ultrafast broadband roll-out reaching central Queenstown next month.
Skateboarders of all abilities will show their skills and vie for a $200 top prize and trophy when the Youth Booth brings the Summer Sk8 Sesh back to the Queenstown Gardens.
The next Peter Jackson could be discovered in a short film competition, one of a wealth of fun summer holiday activities at the Youth Booth in Queenstown.
Tourism New Zealand says it is looking to generate greater value from the burgeoning Chinese market, with its new Premier Kiwi Partnership (PKP) programme targeting those travellers likely to spend more time and money on visits to New Zealand.
Commitment, reliability, team spirit and a sense of humour are among the qualities volunteers must have to join the New Zealand Red Cross and help at the front line in the event of an emergency.
Record numbers of passengers travelled through Queenstown Airport during the festive period, with a huge year-on-year increase in overseas passengers and high demand for parking corporate jets.
Steve Hall hit the ground running as the new principal of Wakatipu High School in early September, taking charge of 700 pupils, 70 staff and the shockwaves of a damning Education Review Office report on senior management and responding to community expectation.
