Joanne Carroll

The Government review of safety in adventure tourism has been extended by two months.

Busking laws in Queenstown are "refreshing" and should not be changed, says one busker who travels to the resort from Australia to perform.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council, at a meeting last week, has given approval to Ziptrek Ecotours to complete the company's flying fox adventure facilities.

Queenstown's proposed wastewater treatment plant, Project Shotover, is likely to get a hearing in the Environment Court next year as mediation talks seem to be failing.

Plans are under way for the next annual Real Women's Duathlon at Millbrook Resort.

Six Queenstown women graduated as the resort's first breast-feeding peer counsellors at a ceremony at Queenstown Playcentre this week.

The Southern F Locomotive Trust, of Invercargill, is not tendering to buy the historic Kingston Flyer steam train business, saying there are too many "grey areas" surrounding the assets for sale.

The construction of Project Shotover, Queenstown's proposed wastewater treatment facility, has been potponed until 2013, but the existing sewage pond system will reach capacity in 2012.

An Invercargill-based charitable trust wants to buy the Kingston Flyer.

A Southland District Health Board committee yesterday failed to approve extra staff for Lakes District Hospital despite being told patients and staff are at risk because of increased demand for services.

The economy has "bottomed out" at a better level than expected, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Bill English told a Queenstown Chamber of Commerce lunch meeting last week.

The Southland Multiple Sclerosis Society says some of its members will no longer be able to use the society's holiday home in Queenstown once parking restrictions in Frankton come into effect.