New Zealand's Winter Olympics medal chances, as well as the 2011 Winter Games, will benefit from the games becoming the first qualifying competition for new ski and snowboard events added to the Olympics programme.
With Coronet Skifield fully open, night skiing under way and the New Zealand school holidays now here, the Remarkables ski area is inching closer to giving NZSki areas a full warrant of fitness.
South Korea's good fortune in securing the 2018 Winter Olympics is also good news for Queenstown and the Otago region, says New Zealand Winter Games chief executive Arthur Klap.
Despite Cairo Knife Fight's singer-drummer-bassist Nick Gaffaney's description of his two-piece rock outfit as "a recession band", it is not in the least economical on sound.
Organisers of Arrowtown celebrations around next year's 150th anniversary of the discovery of gold in Central Otago are holding a "community get-together" this month to help launch the festivities.
After an "eye-opening" experience at the Les Clefs d'Or concierge annual world congress in Toronto, Hilton Queenstown chief concierge Nathan Wise's thoughts have turned to the 2013 conference, which will be held in Queenstown.
People in Queenstown woke up to a white world yesterday, as last week's series of snowstorms continued, leaving a layer of snow down to lake level.
St Joseph's School pupils Samuel Kelly (13) and Bella Anderson (11), show the art works that won them first and second place, respectively, in the Great Bayleys Art Competition, which was judged in June.
Queenstown's first major snowfall for the winter left the district a white canvas yesterday, with snow down to lake level, more than 1000 airline passengers affected - and winter sports enthusiasts thrilled.
Injuries among skiers in the first week and a-half of the season have been mainly "frost injuries", St John Wakatipu operations team manager Alana Reid says.
Snowy conditions outside may have restricted competition at Saturday's Special Olympics Queenstown Lakes tenpin bowling ribbon day to one round, but organisers are calling the event an all-round success.
A legal battle over architect Fred van Brandenburg's purchase of a $1.4 million section in the Millbrook West luxury residential development near Arrowtown has ended this week with the High Court ruling he must pay.
All roads led to the Coronet Peak and Remarkables Ski Areas yesterday.
Snow finally falls on the ski fields around Queenstown. These photos are at Coronet Peak and are by Joe Dodgshun in Queenstown and prints are available online at Otago Images.
A proposed car-rental facility for the Shotover Park development has been described as "providing another tourist asset" for Queenstown Lakes district.
An application for a consent variation allowing two lots of the former Hawthorn Estate development in Queenstown to go ahead without the water features required by the original consent has been lodged by Arcadian Triangle Ltd.
The Queenstown Mountainbike Club is hailing last Saturday's national cyclocross championships a success, and is already looking for ways to make the next event even more spectator-friendly.
Winter Festival celebrations may have passed for another year, but with the opening of the Coronet Peak and Remarkables skifields last week, will the winter business momentum continue? Joe Dodgshun talked to some retailers early this week to find out how busy town really is.
The Queenstown Kiwi Birdlife Park's amorous couple - the young pair of brown kiwis responsible for the four chicks that died this year - have been separated for now.
Snow-sports enthusiasts and anyone wanting to be involved in the southern hemisphere's largest winter sports event are invited to attend 100% Pure New Zealand Winter Games volunteer information nights in Queenstown and Wanaka next week.
