The Arrowtown Volunteer Fire Brigade will hold a bingo night later this month to raise money for the Leukaemia and Blood Foundation.
Julie Hughes, of Arrow Events, said volunteer firefighters Chris Tate, Terry Youngman, John Hillock and Rob Andrews had raised more than $8000 to date.
Soprano Dame Malvina Major never wanted to be an opera singer.
A 27-year-old Dunedin woman was arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer in Queenstown early yesterday.
Queenstown may have fewer overseas workers for the coming winter season, Immigration New Zealand figures show.
The Highlanders v Western Force Super 14 game at Queenstown Events Centre was a fun day out for families, despite the home team loss.
Eight teams will again contest the Central Otago rugby competition, which comprises two rounds plus semifinals and a final. Defending champion Arrowtown, Upper Clutha, Maniototo and pink-clad Wakatipu shape as the favourites, but do not tell the other four teams that.
Queenstown could have a new music festival celebrating New Zealand music next Waitangi Day if a group of music-lovers secures resource consent for the Shotover Sunshine Music Festival.
The first subdivision application has been lodged with Lakes Environmental following the Queenstown Lakes District Council's (QLDC) recently ratified Plan Change 25 for Kingston Special Zone.
The company behind stages 2 and 3 of Queenstown's Kawarau Falls Station development owes creditors more than $100 million, including $69,400 to the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC).
Mining and freedom camping were among issues raised at the Totally Tourism West Coast Tourism Forum held at Franz Josef recently.
Queenstown hotel bookings for Rugby World Cup 2011 were going well so far, New Zealand Hotel Council Queenstown chairman John McIlwain said.
March was a cloudy, wet but warm month in Queenstown, according to weather recorder David Crow.
A Queenstown working party is putting plans together for hosting Rugby World Cup teams in 2011.
A cafe-bar and corner shop are set to be the next addition to the Lake Hayes Estate.
Queenstown shop owners are battling shoplifters with measures including putting offenders' photographs on a "wall of shame".
The Wakatipu Health Trust's submission on a proposed shake-up of health services in Queenstown will be considered with "some weight" by the Southern District Health Board.
NZSki Ltd is employing fewer workers from overseas as more New Zealanders look for work this winter.
A Chinese tourist who remained trapped and undetected under an overturned jet-boat drowned before rescuers could "reasonably" determine that a passenger was missing, a Transport Accident Investigation Commission report has found.
Competitors at the start-line of the Queenstown Mountain Bike Club's 7 X 7 endurance cross-country mountain biking event at the weekend.
The Queenstown Mountain Bike Club's second annual 7 X 7 endurance cross-country mountainbike race was a "great cohesion of people, their bikes and a love for dirt", club president Lance Brown said.
The event was a seven-hour single-track race over trails built and maintained by the club.
After competitors had waited a month for the right weather conditions, Queenstown man Dan Stephens won the top prize in the annual Acrofest last weekend.
Stephens won the overall excellence award and the New Zealand national title for acroparagliding at the 2010 NZone Acrofest final at Queenstown Bay on Sunday.
