A Queenstown information technology specialist is warning computer users not to reveal personal details to unknown parties, after attempts by telephone callers to con Wakatipu residents.
The 18 young competitors in the 2011 Michael Hill International Violin Competition are already winners for reaching the semifinals in Queenstown, the event's founder says.
The 18 young competitors in the 2011 Michael Hill International Violin Competition have had little time to enjoy Queenstown this week, because they have been rehearsing intensely with pianists in private homes before the biennial event begins today.
Volunteers are needed to help clear dense scrub from the pioneering European gold-mining settlement rediscovered in Arrowtown a year ago.
Greg Johnson was flying to his gig in Nelson yesterday, two sold-out dates into his Small Towns and Ball Gowns tour, which brings him to Queenstown on Saturday night.
Mountains, skiing, the Skyline gondola, jet-boats and the TSS Earnslaw are among favourite things about Queenstown 18 budding artists have drawn, painted, or printed for the Great Bayleys' Art Competition.
A comedydrama about an encounter between a young Maori soldier and an Italian army deserter in wartime Italy will be staged in Arrowtown after successful shows in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, American Samoa and London.
The Catholic Education Office is standing by Environment Court approval for a $3 million-$5 million primary school on Speargrass Flat Rd, near Arrowtown, in the face of a new High Court challenge this week.
The National Health Board's entry into the Queenstown health services controversy has been greeted with confusion and disappointment by some in the community.
An award-winning "antidote to the doom and gloom of recession" is a centre piece in the new double-bill exhibition opening in Milford Galleries Queenstown on Saturday.
The scenic sightseeing cruise market on Lake Wakatipu has a new competitor with Southern Discoveries. However, main rival Real Journeys says the vintage steamship Earnslaw "casts a long shadow".
Destination Queenstown (DQ) and 16 tourism operators from the Wakatipu will seek to cultivate the lucrative conference and incentive market at an international trade show in Rotorua this month.
Market updates and research on Chinese visitors will be heard from both of New Zealand's tourism organisations when the Tourism Industry Roadshow pulls up in Queenstown.
Skiers, boarders, trampers and climbers are being urged by the Mountain Safety Council to register for avalanche awareness and back-country avalanche courses.
The Wakatipu Sexual Health and Family Planning clinic is "an absolutely essential service" for young Queenstown people and it would be "a tragedy" if the funding cut meant a doctor could not work in the clinic, supporters say.
Residents and visitors in downtown Queenstown now, for the first time, have around-the-clock access to a $3500 life-saving defibrillator.
Queenstown will host another significant tourism convention next month, less than three weeks after the successful Trenz travel trade show.
Queenstown will host about 100 moneyed golfers and their spouses for the Air New Zealand Festival of Golf which coincides with the Rugby World Cup.
British and Irish people are considering staying longer than they originally planned in Queenstown - and the rest of New Zealand - when they contemplate the troubled economies and labour markets in their home countries, an immigration lawyer says.
Wakatipu High School pupils (from left) Rosie Fea (17), of Queenstown, Deborah Yoon (17), of Lake Hayes Estate, and Emily Kerr (17), Rafael Goettems (17) and Gabby Buchanan (17), all of Queenstown, say they are "excited" and braced for "nightlife encounters" when they sit inside a cage in Queenstown Mall
