Queenstown Marina Developments has confirmed it has been shortlisted by the Queenstown Lakes District Council to submit design plans for a marina at Frankton.
The fire risk is still extreme in some areas of the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago districts.
Property sales in Queenstown for January were the lowest in 10 years, figures show.
The REAL Women's Duathlon is five weeks away.
After waiting for 15 years for a home of its own, the Wakatipu Scout Group is celebrating the opening of its new scout den.
Queenstown's tourism industry may benefit from climate change, because ski fields will disappear elsewhere around the world by the end of this century.
Queenstown couples can expect traditional gifts this Valentine's Day, but some are spicing things up with "naughty" surprises.
Queenstown will get a taste of Rio de Janiero's Mardi Gras in March, if organisers get resource consent to hold a South American festival.
More than $67 million has been poured into Queenstown's $1 billion Kawarau Falls Station development in the six months after two companies associated with stage one went into receivership.
Part of a plan change for Frankton has been withdrawn after the new owner of part of the Five Mile development appealed to the Environment Court.
Two developers have been asked to draw up design plans for a 240-berth marina at Frankton.
Queenstown's new adult literacy service has been formally launched.
The Arrowtown Masonic Lodge will be officially reopened, with a restoration project six years in the making finally completed.
More than 3000 people have signed a petition to save the nine-hole golf course at Frankton.
Some Queenstown commercial fishing guides are furious about "drunken fools" damaging boats around Queenstown Bay.
Two Central Otago landowners are starting to apply for resource consent to use sewage sludge on their farms in response to the Queenstown Lakes District Council seeking expressions of interest from those keen to use sludge from Wanaka's Project Pure waste water treatment plant.
Southern Lakes Deerstalkers Association is opposing plans by the Department of Conservation (Doc) to allow heli-hunters to operate this season without concession permits.
Most schools in the Wakatipu have larger rolls than last year, despite a new school opening in Frankton yesterday, and at least two principals say their schools are exceeding Ministry of Education guidelines on teacher-pupil ratios.
Queenstown Lakes District councillors may withdraw part of a plan change for Frankton after the new owner of part of the Five Mile development appealed to the Environment Court.
Three Arrowtown firefighters will be auctioned this month as they raise funds to help in the fight against leukaemia.