Joanne Carroll

Personalising the learning process can benefit all children, a leading specialist on dyslexia says. United Kingdom-based educator Neil MacKay presented this message in a three-hour workshop at Millbrook Resort on Saturday.

Several Queenstown snowsports fans camped overnight in the snow at Coronet Peak on Friday to be first on the lifts of about 3000 people who turned up for the skifield's opening day on Saturday.

Finance Minister and Clutha Southland MP Bill English gave a post-Budget presentation to about 200 members of the Queenstown Chamber of Commerce on Friday.

Plans to turn the Lakes District Hospital at Frankton into an Integrated Family Health Centre (IFHC) are liked by nearly half of those who made submissions on the Southern District Health Board's (SDHB) proposed shake-up of Wakatipu health services.

Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes will be introducing Queenstown business people to contacts he made in China at the Shanghai Expo.

Closed-circuit television for Queenstown's town centre is essential to deter "feral" behaviour on the streets, the Queenstown Lakes District Council was told at a hearing yesterday.

Jane Guy spends up to 80 hours a week volunteering with the Wakatipu Abuse Prevention Network. Although she is a paid staff member as a youth advocate with the network, she also is one of 10 volunteers who take calls on the network's 24-hour crisis helpline.

About 200 Queenstowners "got dotted" at a workshop to teach communication skills in the Queenstown Memorial Hall last week.

One of the buildings on the nearly completed Kawarau Falls Station development site is breaching the height restrictions of its resource consent.

About 300 submissions were received on the Queenstown Lakes District Council's 2010-11 draft annual plan. Queenstown Times reporter Joanne Carroll looks at the issues raised in the submissions.