The Department of Labour says, although there is no shortage of workers in Queenstown at present, it has launched a pilot scheme which, in its first two weeks, attracted over 1000 overseas workers wanting to work in the resort.
Queenstown Times reporter Joanne Carroll tries her hand at snowboarding and finds that with a couple of lessons anything is possible.
The proposed $30 million new offices for the Queenstown Lakes District Council were a waste of money, grandiose and a low priority in worsening financial times, yesterday's long-term plan hearing was told.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council was yesterday urged to buy the Snow Farm, on the Pisa Range, for $2 million to protect New Zealand's only cross-country skiing facility from private developers.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council may withdraw and amend its application for retrospective resource consent to land helicopters on Bobs Peak, Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes says.
The rural character of Crown Terrace would be destroyed if 20 houses were allowed to be built in the area, a resource consent hearing was told yesterday.
A British fund management company which has put in one third of the capital involved in the $1 billion Kawarau Falls Station resort development says it is still committed to the project.
Twenty proposed houses for the Crown Terrace will not interfere with the wide open views from the Crown Range road, a resource consent hearing was told yesterday.
A decision to publicly notify an application to land helicopters at Bobs Peak is "bureaucracy gone absolutely crazy", according to one helicopter operator.
Work and Income New Zealand has started holding unemployment seminars in Queenstown.
Queenstown GP Pat Farry says it was a big surprise to be awarded an MNZM for services to rural medicine.
No Queenstown businesses have signed up for discounted energy efficiency audits for tourism operators, despite $31,000 average annual energy savings by business that have.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has received an unprecedented 1100 sub- missions on its draft 10-year council community plan, up 378% on the number received in 2006.
Five Wakatipu High School pupils resisted all temptations put in their way during their 40-hour famine locked in a cage in Queenstown Mall this weekend.
Queenstown employers are finding it harder to employ overseas workers as Immigration New Zealand declines more applications and puts increasing pressure on employers to find New Zealand workers.
Queenstown's first hazardous waste amnesty attracted everything from thinners to nail polish and agrichemicals to laboratory chemicals.
Up to 85 bus drivers took part in New Zealand's first skifield bus driver information day at Coronet Peak near Queenstown on Saturday.
More than 3500 bargain hunters spent better than $165,000 at the Wakatipu Ski Club annual trade-in ski sale at the Queenstown Event Centre yesterday.
Wakatipu High School's NCEA excellence and merit pass rates trail the national average, figures show.
A draft bylaw proposes "substantial changes" to busking in Queenstown, Mayor Clive Geddes says.
