The Queenstown Lakes District Council will strengthen its bid to fast-track a new two-lane bridge on State Highway 6 at Frankton after Environment Minister Nick Smith called the resort "a place of national significance".
Malaghans Rd has been identified as a future primary alternative arterial route, being built as "a motorway on the back road to Arrowtown", Queenstown Lakes district councillor Trevor Tattersfield says.
Queenstown stood with the nation on Friday paying tribute to the earthquake victims with the service at Frankton's City Impact Church and watching the televised memorial.
Transport minister Steven Joyce says the announcement of funding for the initial design of a $19 million two-lane bridge at Kawarau Falls at Frankton is a "positive step forward for the region".
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will oppose a move by developers to appeal a High Court decision over the council's Plan Change 24 (PC 24) project aimed at fostering affordable housing in the district.
Gordon Ramsay protege Josh Emett is searching the Queenstown waterfront for a site to establish a new but "accessible" fine-dining restaurant that could open as early as next year.
Noise limits in Queenstown's town centre should be relaxed, according to the majority of respondents to a Queenstown Lakes District Council questionnaire on noise.
Playmate Ashley Hobbs (21) says it's not the icy Kawarau River rushing below that put her off bungy jumping in Queenstown yesterday - more the thought the cord could snap.
On the back of three gold medals at the weekend's South Island secondary schools rowing champs in Twizel, Wakatipu High School coaches are confident heading into the Maadi Cup national regatta.
The Invercargill woman who died in a crash involving a concrete truck at Devil's Staircase on State Highway 6 between Frankton and Kingston on Friday night has been named.
Replacing the one-lane Kawarau Falls bridge with a new two-lane structure is unlikely to begin before 2016 at the earliest, the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) says.
Dorchester Pacific debenture holders will take heart in news that Queenstown's Frankton Arm Apartments have been sold with a book value of $2.3 million.
Organisers of the inaugural Gibbston Valley Winery Summer Concert are seeking solutions to traffic congestion and transport problems created by 15,000 partygoers getting to and from the site.
The last time Rosemary Crick travelled the "narrow and shingly" Skippers Canyon road was in the late 1950s and the then 10-year-old was wedged among siblings in the back seat of a 1952 Chevrolet.
A Queenstown Lakes District Council-led initiative dubbed Project Assist has gauged how the district is managing an influx of displaced Cantabrians from the February 22 earthquake.
Displaced Canterbury pupils enrolled at Queenstown Lakes district schools are beginning to discuss the trauma of their earthquake experience with fellow pupils and school counsellors.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is preparing to question the pilot of a Robinson R-22 helicopter that crashed to the ground at the north end of Lake Hauroko, northwest of Tuatapere early yesterday morning.
Strained relations between senior management and staff at Wakatipu High School in Queenstown have been partly blamed on stress over private funding in the wake of last year's curriculum reshuffle.
The district court-based collection unit in Queenstown will survive under a national Ministry of Justice reshuffle of collections services that could threaten other similar-sized regional units.
After three decades in Queenstown - nearly two of those in the hands of the Ennis family - Queenstown's Beefeater Steakhouse served its last steaks at the weekend.
