Those attending the New Zealand Psychological Society conference in Queenstown yesterday gained a seldom heard perspective on how New Zealand Defence Force personnel coped with the trauma of serving in Christchurch after the February earthquake.
Breaking the ice goes to new heights at Coronet Peak tonight, with the launch of the inaugural Singles Night chairlift speed-dating session.
It is not until Queenstown experiences a winter such as this that people realise where their season-pass dollars go and, for NZSki, extensive and expensive development over the past three years has paid off in spades.
Queenstown Times reporter Joe Dodgshun is one of thousands of residents and visitors whose travel plans scattered to the four winds due to the severe winter weather.
Groups hoping for a slice of the $200,000 funding for 2012 celebrations around the 150th anniversary of gold discovery in Central Otago have only 13 weeks left to put their case.
A "huge crowd" of at least 3000 people is expected to converge on Earnslaw Park tonight for the combined 2011 Winter Games New Zealand opening and Parklife Invitational Rail Jam.
The days of abandoned Five Mile site "Hendo's Hole" are numbered: it is hoped work on Gateway Queenstown's proposed $125 million shopping and entertainment complex will start there in October.
Producing the successful Diaries Downunder snowboard video blog means that Queenstown snowboarder Nick Hyne now spends less time on the slopes, but it is not something that worries him.
Despite competing at the age of just 17, Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris has already made his mark on the international scene.
A Queenstown man's proposal to create a perfumery selling scents made from the native taramea - or speargrass - plant, is now awaiting resource consent approval.
Les Clefs d'Or new South Island delegate Fiona Lawson is aiming to promote Christchurch as the gateway to the South, and therefore Queenstown, at the concierge organisation's 2013 International Congress in Queenstown.
Despite the global economic shake-up of the past three years, Queenstown's reputation as the adventure tourism capital of the world is growing.
The Queenstown Resort College is set to introduce "educational tourism" weekends this September, beginning with their Wine Down Central Otago weekends.
Skifield operators are counting this year's "spread-out" run of Australian and New Zealand school holidays as a blessing.
Efforts by Queenstown's fledgling tertiary institutions to attract students are paying off,as Joe Dodgshunreports in the second and final part of our series on Wakatipu education.
Despite difficult times, with building and construction reaching a plateau over the past 18 months, the outlook for development is looking up, and the industry is "looking to see a little bit of growth".
It is do or die for the Southern Stampede as the team enters the final round of the New Zealand Ice Hockey League precariously second behind the Botany Swarm.
The group behind a proposed multi-use Arrowtown community building is asking the community to decide on the best use for contested Arrowtown Camping Ground land - that or community housing?
After not competing professionally in ski cross since 2003, former national champion Sam Hazeldine knew he had to give it another go after watching the last Olympic Games.
The most obvious changes wrought to the face of Queenstown lie in its commercial and residential development during the past three years.
