After an eight-match winning streak, the Southern Stampede needs just one more good performance to win the New Zealand Ice Hockey League title. Olivia Caldwell identifies five reasons the Stampede can bring the trophy back to Queenstown.
In terms of provincial sporting codes, Queenstown is often on the outer because of its location, but the Southern Stampede ice hockey team has put the resort back on the sporting map, as the national ice hockey final will be held in the resort tomorrow night.
A copy of a 143-year-old painting by early surveyor John Turnbull Thomson is now on display on TSS Earnslaw.
A fleet of 15 of the latest Harley-Davidson motorcycles will be in Queenstown this month for the resort's first Harley Demo Day.
Arrowtown's Angus Beaton received some timely news last week on Daffodil Day when doctors told him his cancerous tumour had gone.
The future of a pilot with more than 33 years' flying experience will be known next month after the Civil Aviation Authority and defence made their final closing submissions at the Queenstown District Court yesterday.
The Arrowtown Bachelor and Bachelorette Ball was held at the Athenaeum Hall on Saturday night for its second year running.
Cocktails are a specialty in Queenstown and some of the world's best mixologists - makers of cocktails - have arrived in the resort for the Cocktail World Cup 2012.
Alan Brady planted the first grapevine on the Gibbston Valley Winery property 31 years ago and says he is as surprised as anyone to see the winery celebrate a 25-year commercial success.
Some signs which relate to the former give way rules, which were abandoned in March this year and replaced with a more international-friendly system, could be removed as a result of a report to Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Gay Ski Week Queenstown organisers say the event attracted more than 1000 visitors to the resort during the week and most have promised to come back in 2013.
St Joseph's Primary school raised more than $12,000 at its fifth art auction on Saturday night, held at the Rydges Hotel in Queenstown.
A four-week hearing on a Pacific Blue pilot's actions when he flew out of Queenstown Airport in 2010 resumes on Monday in the Queenstown District Court. Queenstown reporter Olivia Caldwell summarises the case so far.
The skipper of Torea and 12 salvage crew have spent three days and two nights trying to save the damaged vessel in Foveaux Strait.
Put it in your diary: on Saturday, September 8, the Southern Stampede will play in its first home final in Queenstown.
A commercial cruise ship has been sent to Bluff for repairs after it ran into gravel in Milford Sound on Thursday while carrying 101 passengers.
The Southern Stampede will play its first home final in two weeks' time after beating the Canterbury Red Devils in a double header over the weekend.
The Dunedin Thunder and Southern Stampede were once one big happy family.
Spring is in the air and so will love be next weekend at the Arrowtown annual Spring Bachelor and Bachelorette Ball.
The Arrowtown Autumn Festival has a new director; and she has a few surprises planned for the 2013 event.
