Joanne Carroll

Kevin and Bess Paul live, eat and breathe cheese.

Health officials are becoming increasingly concerned that swine flu, which has killed 180 people worldwide, could become resistant to Tamiflu.

Queenstown workers were having difficulty renewing their work permits while the Department of Labour was launching a scheme to attract new working holidaymakers from overseas, employers told an Immigration New Zealand meeting in the resort yesterday.

A proposal designed to make the turn-off to Kelvin Heights, off State Highway 6, safer was heard at a resource consent hearing in Queenstown last week.

Children were disappointed they could not ride Alpine Aqualand's fast hydroslide over the weekend after it was closed for safety reasons.

Destination Queenstown should be funding and managing more events in the resort, the Queenstown Lakes District Council's long-term plan hearing was told on Friday.

Australian Nick Langley decided to sit on a Queenstown roundabout with a sign telling motorists he needed a job so he could stay in the resort - but instead he attracted the police.

Queenstown's Chamber of Commerce is proposing a new tourism and economic development "super board" to take over functions of council-controlled organisations like Queenstown Airport and Destination Queenstown, funded by taxing tourists.

Alpine Aqualand's fast hydroslide at Frankton has been closed for the second time in six months after a woman received head and shoulder injuries recently, despite complying with new safety measures.

The Skyline Gondola luge chairlift was operating again yesterday after an electrical malfunction left eight people stuck 20m off the ground about noon on Tuesday.

Work is continuing on the $1 billion Kawarau Falls Station development at Frankton despite a two-week funding deadline from receivers being reached yesterday.

Queenstown's health system is "ineffectual", a Queenstown Lakes District Council 10-year plan submissions hearing was told last week.