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Former Queenstown Lakes District Council chief executive Duncan Field is behind a resource consent application for a new jet-boating and water taxi business on Lake Wakatipu.

Queenstown woman Alex Thornton was shocked yesterday when a runaway trailer hit her car at lunchtime, and spun it 180deg before it "hurtled on its merry way" and smashed into a 4WD vehicle parked outside the Queenstown District Court.

A Queenstown contractor employed on the construction of Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium has had his flagship company placed in receivership, saying the building industry is in "a hell of a state".

Securing funding for the future of sport in Wakatipu is a priority, as sports groups' frustrations intensify about being "bumped" from the Queenstown Events Centre to make way for conferences.

Glorious sunshine and perfect calm made an ideal setting for Arrowtown's 27th Autumn Festival parade, which this year attracted a record 50 floats.

Southern Discoveries Ltd, a tourism operator owned by Dunedin's Skeggs family, has acquired a 50% stake in Queenstown's Kawarau Jet.

Despite a few blokes loitering around DJ equipment, women were definitely in the majority at the Central Otago/Lakes District Wedding Show at the Millbrook Resort yesterday.

A paraglider who crashed into thick forest near the Skyline gondola base in Queenstown yesterday walked away with mild concussion and facial cuts.

Noted Kiwi chef Peter Thornley will head Hilton Queenstown's signature Wakatipu Grill restaurant at the $1 billion Kawarau Falls Station resort, the hotel group announced yesterday.

From a mouse-infested rust heap to lovingly restored vintage motor, the Old Red Arrow Miners Band truck has been finished just in time to grace Saturday's Arrowtown Autumn Festival parade.

Tonnie Spijkerbosch will never have to drink alone, at least not while his image adorns the inside of Queenstown's newest tourist attraction - Creeksyde Holiday Park's Speight's Ale House and day spa themed "lovely loos."

Queenstown's newest acrobatic has been twisting, leaping, tumbling and contorting since she was a toddler and plans to share her skills by setting up an acrobatic academy in the resort.

Of the many reasons to get undressed, charity is probably the most noble - which is why a group of Queenstown riverboard and canyon guides decided to "get naked for Christchurch".

Submissions have mostly supported the Arrowtown Mining Company's bid to turn Dudley's Cottage into an interactive gold-mining and tourism sightseeing complex.