Following in the footsteps of Rock and Roll Suicide, Margaret O'Hanlon's latest musical offering, London Calling, is taking shape ahead of its inclusion in Winter Games festivities.
Gay Ski Week's organisers are breathing a sigh of relief - and turning their eyes towards 2012. Sally Whitewoods and wife Mandy, of Queenstown, stepped up to the plate after the company which...
A homebrew competition is deemed but one facet of the inaugural Queenstown Beer Festival to be held later this month.
Queenstown's ski injuries are "on par" with previous seasons, says St John, has transported about 100 people from the mountains so far this season.
The driver of a truck was taken to Queenstown Lakes District Hospital yesterday after being hit by a reversing vehicle at the Frankton Rd BP outlet.
Queenstown and Wanaka businesses and residents were smiling yesterday after winter finally arrived, leaving up to 22cm of snow on the region's skifields.
Heavy snowfalls over the last week have provided sufficient cover to ensure all areas of the Remarkables skifield are now open.
Looking to recreate an indoor market like those in Sydney and Barcelona, two Queenstown newcomers are setting up in Shotover St premises, and plan to be open seven days a week.
Twenty-three years after Queenstown's Fraser Skinner (58) first helped start the New Zealand Ski Masters, 2011 may be the first year the veteran skier and organiser does not compete.
A Queenstown duo who turned their insight on the increasing popularity of biking in the resort into a website marketing cycling in New Zealand have come out top in Otago in a national business plan competition.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council's strategy of having preferred contractors - which had been a major issue for Queenstown Lakes Mayor Vanessa van Uden - has been changed.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is pleased with how roading contractors have responded to the two unusually large snowfalls over the past month.
The way Queenstown deals with electronic waste could change with an e-waste recycling trial beginning in Queenstown and Wanaka later this year.
After achieving the highest placing of any female skier at the inaugural Winter Games New Zealand in 2009, top-ranked athlete Sarah Jarvis is back and raring to go.
Queenstown is to host a major New Year's music festival this summer, with up to 10,000 people expected to party to the sounds of American, British and New Zealand acts.
For many skiers and snowboarders, deciding what to wear on the mountain is harder than actually getting up there. Joe Dodgshun went to Coronet Peak to snap some of the more eye-catching outfits on show.
The final programme for the 2011 New Zealand Winter Games festival has been confirmed, and for Queenstown it will bring a number of previously unannounced music and community events.
Skiers from around the Pacific will be on the slopes on Saturday, as Coronet Peak hosts the annual Dynastar Lange Junior Interfield series.
A proposal to develop two lots of the former Hawthorn Estate development without the ponds required in the original resource consent can now be processed without going to a hearing.
A "dramatic" re-enactment of the gold rush era to take place on the banks of the Arrow River 150 years after the discovery of gold in many parts of Central Otago is but one event celebration organisers are urging the Arrowtown community to support.
