The Westaways, who are retiring after welcoming 2.5 million visitors over 37 years of managing Walter Peak High Country Farm, across Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown, say they do not feel they deserved the grand farewell accorded them on Friday night, as the idyllic property "has been part of our lives".
Scotland favourite sons, the Red Hot Chilli Pipers blew the roof off a Queenstown Memorial Hall packed with 400 party people on Sunday night.
National welterweight champion Bowen Morgan, of Christchurch, dropping Auckland contender Shay Walker-Brock in the second round was one of the highlights of the Epic Boxing Showdown in the Queenstown Memorial Hall on Saturday. Morgan decisively won by 36 points to 26 and was named "fighter of the night".
Bikinis for Breast Cancer racers and NZSki Remarkables staff braved the single-figure temperature and chilly wind gusts to raise $475 for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation on Saturday.
Unity among pupils and staff during troubled times was robustly expressed in Wakatipu High School on Friday.
The last guests departed from the Remarkables Ski Area yesterday and the chairs will be taken off the lines and stacked on Wednesday, signalling the first time the ski area has closed before Coronet Peak.
The first and last impressions of Queenstown of the 1.89 million visitors to the resort every year have never been more important in this age of instant global communication, but is customer service in the resort as exceptional as it could or should be?
Solo artists Holly Arrowsmith and Max Gunn, along with duo Emily Burns and Hertzog Burger, will take on the Fletcherz and DubSide in the 2011 Ultimate Battle of the Musos in the Youth Booth on Friday.
Mel Parsons, one of New Zealand's rising singer-songwriting stars, with bass player Aaron Stewart (right), drummer Nick George and guitarist-backing vocalist Andy Moore, as the Rhythm Kings, enchanted the more than 30 people in the Winehouse, Gibbston, on Saturday night.
St Joseph's School pupils (from left) Mila Jojil (10), Sophie Lardizabal (12), Christina Calvero (12), Jakob Newell (10) and Marie Eden (12) form a rugby line-out as All Blacks in a scene from the school's stage production, Winners, on Friday.
The Ministry of Education insists the existing school network in Wakatipu meets population demands and provision for rising numbers of pupils continues to be "a priority".
Queenstown JazzFest 2011 is diversifying its repertoire in October with free outdoor screenings and a special art installation.
Young acoustic soloists and duos compete in the second heat of the Ultimate Battle of the Bands in the Youth Booth tonight.
As soon as New Zealand was confirmed for their latest tour, the DVD of choice on the Red Hot Chilli Pipers tour bus around Germany was Billy Connolly's World Tour of New Zealand.
The Ministry of Education has given its strongest indication yet it will approve the proposed reduced enrolment zone for Remarkables Primary School by advising the board of trustees it was its "preference".
The results of hundreds of hours of work by nimble-fingered artisans from around New Zealand will be on display at the Lakes District Museum in Arrowtown from this week.
The historic schoolhouse in Paradise, near Glenorchy, is rising from the ashes of the fire which gutted it in late July.
A customised caravan is trundling its way down New Zealand's heartland, almost Goodbye Pork Pie style, to Queenstown to show residents and visitors the cream of Kiwi film and television at no charge.
Defending champions the Fletcherz and new rival DubSide go through to the final of the 2011 Ultimate Battle of the Musos after winning the first heat of the fourth annual music competition in Queenstown's rebranded youth centre on Friday night.
The re-election of the committee of the Lakes District Museum has been taken as a vote of confidence the Arrowtown institution is "going down the right track" in handling its financial plight, the museum director says.
