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Harry's Pool Team, of Queenstown, reached the doubles semifinals and singles final at the New Zealand Open Pool Championships last weekend.

Proponents of the $11 million Around the Mountains Trail received a resource consent setback this week, but the Southland District Council is planning to begin construction anyway.

Queenstown's new digital closed circuit television camera system is preventing crime and helping detect offenders, resort police say.

Sixteen Queenstown mothers embraced World Breastfeeding Week by taking part in The Big Latch on last Friday.

Whether it be steak, red wine or shampoo, the key to growing a decent-sized beard will be known in just 11 weeks when the Great Arrowtown Beard Growing Competition draws to its end.

Arrowtown artist Pat Jones stands by one of the works in her "Corridors and Passages" exhibition, which opened on Friday at the Lakes District Museum. Photo by Olivia Caldwell.

They do not play the understated game for recognition, but four Queenstown pool players will represent the area at the New Zealand Open in Auckland, starting tomorrow.

More than 750 Wakatipu pupils took part in the inaugural Wakatipu Kids Games this week and organiser Jendi Paterson says she wants to see more such sports programmes planned.

The developers appealing a $35 million Pak'n Save supermarket at Frankton deny they are trade competitors and say it is important to zone the land properly before resource consent is given.

Adam Feeley's proven track record makes him the right man for the job as Queenstown Lakes District Council's new chief executive, Mayor Vanessa van Uden says.

Miss Otago, Monique Cooley, was philosophical last night after being told she, too, had been stripped of her placing in the Miss Universe New Zealand competition.

Serious Fraud Office director Adam Feeley says his new job as Queenstown Lakes District Council chief executive is not a step towards a quieter life.