Picks of the week Today 6pm to 8pm: Summerdaze Festival presents Wakatipu bands TBT, Waisted Coats and Face Changes performing popular rock covers for Entertainment on the Green, Queenstown Village Green, organised by the RockFormation Charitable Trust. Free.
More than 8800 vehicles were stopped during the festive season anti-drink-drive blitz by police around the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago districts and 10 motorists face drink-driving charges, eight more than for the same period the previous year.
A 20-year-old Belgian man was stopped by New Zealand Customs at Queenstown Airport and involved in an ''immigration turnaround'' due to his alleged illegal drug habit.
The Ministry of Education has spent $17 million on land for two new schools in the Wakatipu basin.
In his 10th month in charge of arguably the South's most important asset, Queenstown Airport chief executive Scott Paterson says he has never worked in an industry that is so seasonal.
The Queenstown Memorial Hall has become fit for community use in the 21st century, as a tour of the cornerstone facility revealed at the end of stage one of its $3.1 million upgrade.
A large walk-up crowd swelled the numbers of revellers celebrating New Year's Eve festivities in central Dunedin.
A step inside the beautiful, sun-drenched wooden cellar door area and tasting room of Waitiri Creek Wines in Gibbston is to instantly feel a sense of serenity, a gentle reminder of its original incarnation as the Wangaloa Presbyterian Church.
Wild country riding along the main ridge at the top of the Remarkables will be the new grand finale of the eagerly awaited Queenstown Bike Festival and a first for Australasia, organisers say.
New Zealand's leading contemporary dance company will bring its latest masterpiece to the Festival of Colour in Queenstown and Wanaka in April next year.
Wakatipu Victim Support is $734 better off after receiving the proceeds of the popular Christmas Carol Concert in the City Impact Church last week.
Queenstown's smallest independent pie merchant has come up with an ingenious way for busy Wakatipu workers, residents and visitors to get a taste of Christmas on the run.
The end of tenure of the Ministry of Education's troubleshooter in Wakatipu High School signals a return to normalcy following almost two years of turbulence triggered by a scathing Education Review Office (Ero) report.
St Joseph's School year 8 leavers and high achievers
Telephoning, skyping, texting and emailing in Queenstown, Frankton and Arrowtown on devices just became free and easy thanks to a new service introduced by Telecom this summer.
Voices raised in festive song will ring out when the Combined Queenstown Churches Christmas Carol Celebration is held on the grounds of St Peter's Anglican Church on Sunday at 6pm.
Using the wilding pine trees which infest the Central Lakes district as an energy source to heat commercial buildings is being studied by both councils in partnership with two government agencies.
Queenstown mothers will be given more post-natal time with their babies in Lakes District Hospital under changes to be introduced by the Southern District Health Board in about six months.
Light a fire which gets out of control and you are liable to pay thousands of dollars to have it put out, the Queenstown Lakes District Council and the Department of Conservation (Doc) say.
Tributes to all KingsView School pupils for their year of achievement flowed at its second annual Celebration of Learning on Thursday.
