About 100 Australian "schoolies" are expected in Queenstown next month to celebrate graduation, but tour operators are promising nothing like the "drunken yobbos" who have plagued the Gold Coast.
Queenstowners will this Christmas be bringing smiles to the faces of poor children in Cambodia, Papua New Guinea and Fiji - one shoebox-full of gifts at a time.
Providing about 250 jobs, Queenstown's proposed Pak'n Save supermarket would become the district's second-biggest employer, commissioners heard yesterday.
Legal costs of $606,000 - a legacy of the Queenstown Airport share sale litigation - have been revealed to be the only major overspending by the Queenstown Lakes District Council in the past financial year.
A blizzard held off at the Queenstown Events Centre yesterday, allowing finals of the inaugural World Junior Rugby Festival South Island tournament to finish.
Jetstar is selling limited $7 fares today to promote its new Wellington-to-Queenstown route in a bid to further breach Air New Zealand's hold on the domestic market.
Wakatipu Rowing Club launched their new $33,000 quad boat on Saturday.
Lower guest-night figures for July show that despite the welcome arrival of snow, Queenstown and the wider Otago region were still suffering in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes.
Kiwi bands are being confirmed for the first night of EarthTonz, which is December 30.
A four-day cycling tour - the first to take in the new and "fantastically beautiful" Paradise Trail between Queenstown and Glenorchy - could be on the cards thanks to the vision of a local couple.
Phase one of the Queenstown Mountain Bike Club's proposed cross-country trail link development is to run alongside some of Queenstown's "gold-mining heritage", a move which has excited the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
The manager of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's holiday parks is calling for change at its two recently obtained Wanaka camp grounds, which have posted poor figures this year.
Wellington computer programmer Mike Butler was in need of a cuppa when he arrived in Queenstown yesterday, over halfway through his 2325km hike around the South Island fundraising for the Cancer Society.
In a bid to continue increasing efficiency, Lakes Environmental is looking to make some services accessible online, including electronic copies of about 17,000 resource consents.
A signed Irish rugby jersey, all the more valuable following last week's victory over the Wallabies, will be auctioned as part of the Crowne Plaza's Irish Night fundraiser on Friday.
A keen group of volunteers, the Wakatipu Wilding Conifer Control Group has cleared 2500ha in the past couple of years. Joe Dodgshun finds out about the Inland Conservation Award winner's quest to rid the region of wilding pines.
The Queenstown Bike Festival has been locked in for another year, returning in 2012 with all this year's action and more.
The Queenstown Bike Park could host a second guided mountain-bike tour operator.
A Queenstown lakefront property owned by failed company Queenstown Villas (New Zealand), which owes about $22 million to Strategic Nominees, is now the subject of a mortgagee sale.
Combined funding of $40,000 has been secured for maintenance of the Queenstown Bike Park during the 2011-12 mountain-biking season, to be pooled into one pot for a collaborative approach.
