Landowners will deny access to informal trails if a Queenstown Lakes District Council plan change is not amended, Wanaka high-country farmer John Aspinall told the Environment Court in Queenstown yesterday.
About 120 hospitality workers in the Queenstown Lakes District brushed up their host responsibility skills at Drink Safe workshops in Queenstown and Wanaka this week.
Up to 500 mourners gathered yesterday to celebrate the life of Queenstown man Mark James Smith (47) who died in the resort last Thursday.
Queenstown marketing executives Rachael Errington and Jo Weir are getting behind the Otago SPCA.
A former Queenstown resident has been awarded €46,000 ($NZ94,504.20) after his house in Ireland disappeared while he was living in the resort.
Maritime New Zealand has decided not investigate an incident involving Sail Queenstown's America's Cup yacht on Lake Wakatipu at the weekend.
A Queenstown Lakes District Council plan change discriminated against farmers who had gone through tenure review or who gave informal access to their land, the Environment Court was told in Queenstown yesterday.
Queenstown builder Alaistair Saville has returned from the relief effort in Samoa where he helped build homes for families devastated by the tsunami.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has been told a hydroslide which has caused injuries at Alpine Aqualand must remain closed until modifications are made to improve its safety.
All bars in the Queenstown Lakes district will close by 4am from Wednesday, more than two years after the policy was adopted by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Queenstown police want to speak with a man who was in the area where a kayaker disappeared last Friday.
Queenstown's public transport has been given a boost with the preliminary approval of $2.45 million funding from the New Zealand Transport Agency.
Police divers yesterday found the body of Gellert Csaba Mudra, who went missing last Friday while kayaking on Lake Wakatipu.
Noise from Wanaka's Mint Bar is "unbearable" according to neighbours opposing the bar's liquor licence renewal application at a hearing in Queenstown this week.
Volunteers have raised more than $230,000 to restore the historic Frankton marina boatshed.
A prediction by Hanover Finance that the next stage of Melview Developments' $1 billion Kawarau Falls Station hotel project at Frankton could begin soon prompted guarded reaction in Queenstown yesterday.
An environmental lobby group is dismayed the Department of Conservation (Doc) appears to have thrown a possible lifeline to the $170 million Milford Dart Tunnel proposal.
Police are looking at "a number of scenarios" after another day of fruitless searching for missing kayaker Gellert Csaba Mudra and have notified him to all New Zealand airports as a missing person.
The search will continue today for a missing Queenstown kayaker after police divers yesterday failed to find any trace of him during a five-hour search of Lake Wakatipu.
Hopes for a new, multimillion-dollar theatre for Dunedin appear to be lost, after a Dunedin City Council committee voted yesterday to agree with a report that found it was not needed.
