James Beech

Queenstown airport needs 19.1ha of land owned by Remarkables Park Ltd to free up space for its terminal expansion and allow it to develop an aviation park for 10 commercial operators and corporate jets, the airport's chief says.

A Jetstar airliner approaches the runway of Queenstown Airport above the construction site o

A historic hut on the northeast side of Mt Earnslaw, near Glenorchy, has been revitalised by $5000 of works by the Department of Conservation (Doc) Wakatipu area office, but mystery still surrounds its origins.

A pair of Parisian chefs are heading to Queenstown to cook French cuisine with flair in residents' own homes.

A body of work inspired by trips to the head of Lake Wakatipu by two Dunedin artists and friends forms the latest exhibition in Toi o Tahuna Fine Art Gallery.

Frankton Kindergarten children are already benefiting from new $38,000 matting on their outside play area and new $3000 transparent blinds in the conservatory, head teacher Pam Wild says.

Queenstown members of the New Zealand Hotel Council say their occupancy last month was "slightly down" compared with January 2010.

Turning 75 in early December sparked the finest artwork he has ever created, the internationally renowned New Zealand artist Max Gimblett says.

Max Gimblett returns to the Wakatipu art scene to present in person his latest series of paintings in the Nadene Milne Gallery, in Arrowtown.

Preparing for the emerging tourism market of China is the aim of a Destination Queenstown workshop for Wakatipu operators featuring a panel of guest speakers, on May 20.

Wine and beer bottles, cigarette butts, plastic straws, drink cans, a plastic pipe, a few "unsavoury items" and a large truck tyre were collected from Queenstown's coastline by 21 volunteers on Saturday.

The Government wants to encourage more diversity in New Zealand schools and still too many missed out on excellent education, deputy prime minister and Clutha Southland MP Bill English says.