olivia caldwell

Organisers of the New Zealand PGA and celebrity golf championship are calling for Queenstown to get in behind the event as they hope to sign up the tournament's first Hollywood star.

The Queenstown Lakes district's third concert in the space of a week is on target to sell its projected ticket total of 15,000, according to organisers.

Nicola-Ann Kay's biggest boxing career challenge to date did not last one round, but it has left her more determined than ever.

Losing a head full of hair is a small price to pay for two Queenstown women who hope to raise more than $3000 for cancer research, three years after family members died of cancer.

He was lying on a beach in Thailand when he thought of the idea. Now, two months on, Harald Ulriksen is finding himself uncomfortably close to starting his 3700km running journey the length of Chile, one of the longest countries in the world.

In the seven years the Motatapu mountain bike race has been held, a local has never won, but race director Gemma Boyle thinks 2012 could be the year to change that.

Some of the world's best downhill mountain bikers have been in Queenstown this week training for the forthcoming World Cup Series to be held across 10 different countries over eight months.

A new education officer has arrived at the Lakes District Museum, and with eight years of teaching experience she is ready for the challenge.

Queenstown Quilters and Patchworkers will celebrate their 25th birthday tomorrow and members have invited everyone to see the colourful display at the Lakes District Museum in Arrowtown.

Queenstown bouncer Jonathan Dixon has indicated he will plead not guilty to charges of assault and causing grievous bodily harm to two other men outside a nightclub ten days ago.

For some people, 10 minutes in a sauna is exhausting enough. Add on another two and a-half hours along with 26 yoga stretches and you've reached bikram world champion status.

At one stage, it seemed that every few weeks Queenstown would come up with a new adventure activity to thrill visitors and lighten their wallets. However, things have been quiet on this front for about four years. Olivia Caldwell investigates whether the resort has lost its adventurous edge.

Arrowtown residents will have to wait a while longer before the future of the town's speed limit is revealed after "technicalities" in the original proposal need correcting.

Queenstown's tandem skydive Nzone has added two planes to its collection and applied for a new resource consent reflecting reduced noise levels from the company.

The proposed $150 millon Milford Dart Tunnel will do Glenorchy businesses and tourism no favours, the town's community association and tourism operators say.

A month before the deadline for submissions on the proposed Milford-Dart tunnel, the Department of Conservation said it has received nearly 200.

One of Otago's rising boxers is heading to Christchurch at Waitangi weekend for the Oceania qualifying trials with the hope of heading to Canberra in March.