Cookie Time has employed the help of Weta Workshop to bring its cookie muncher character to life for a flagship store in Queenstown.
The budget for Queenstown's "chronic" water and wastewater system is expected to blow out by $800,000 this financial year, to the concern of councillors.
The five-star Westin hotel may not be opening at the billion-dollar Kawarau Falls Station Development in Queenstown.
Michael Hill has challenged the Queenstown business community to help keep the New Zealand Open at his private Arrowtown golf course, The Hills.
The Queenstown Rotary Club collected more than $10,000 during three days of fundraising for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
The Frankton Zoological Gardens are open to the public again and its owner is back at work, after six months recovering from stroke.
Extensive road works around Arrowtown should not disrupt traffic to and from the New Zealand Golf Open but speed restrictions are likely on State Highway 6, the New Zealand Transport Agency says.
Unemployment in Queenstown soared in the last six months of 2009 to levels not seen since 2003, but has been dropping steadily in the past couple of weeks.
The Civil Aviation Authority is investigating an incident over Lake Wakatipu during which two passenger planes came close enough to spark an automatic warning to the two pilots.
Queenstown and Wanaka have scooped extra government funding to attract more Australian tourists.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is spending about $70,000 every month on faults to Queenstown's ageing water supply network.
Memberships at Alpine Health and Fitness are selling "as steadily as hoped", Lakes Leisure chief executive Fiona McKissock says.
Queenstown teenager Taylor Rapley (18) has won gold in two national junior slalom races in the United States.
Business will be booming in Arrowtown during the Michael Hill New Zealand Golf Open later this month.
As the Government ploughs ahead with its ministerial review into safety in the adventure tourism industry, a Queenstown white-water rafting pioneer talks to reporter Joanne Carroll about his experiences and how safety measures have developed since the early days.
Five "bloody idiots" were arrested for drink-driving in Queenstown at the weekend, Sergeant Brian Cameron said.
The Government has indicated it will not be boosting its funding for the Michael Hill New Zealand Golf Open.
The owner of the Kingston Flyer steam train owes almost $5 million, the receivers' first report confirmed yesterday.
The owner of a development near Lake Hayes plans to build a golf practice facility and public jetty on the shores of Lake Hayes.
Eight-year-old Kristine Clair Uchi Galano is the youngest student to attend the Queenstown Violin Summer School, and she has also travelled further than any of her classmates - all the way from Brunei.