A karting facility, 10-pin bowling centre and a new gym will be established at Remarkables Park, north of Hawthorne Dr, after resource consent was granted (subject to conditions) on a non-notified basis.
A resource consent hearing began in Queenstown yesterday for the proposed Mitre 10 Mega store at Frankton - despite appeals on the original application, lodged in November 2011, still waiting to be heard by the Court of Appeal.
A food challenge ''for the people, by the people'' will be staged in Glenorchy this month, encouraging entrants to whip up a wild food feast, simultaneously promoting understanding, appreciation and sustainability of the environment.
Aaron Smith has learnt a lot in the past year.
The Highlanders got a taste of home life in the Wakatipu last night when they were billeted by junior rugby players in Queenstown and Arrowtown.
A travel specialist based in the Netherlands has offered to do what the Queenstown Lakes District Council would not - give two German tourists $1400, the cost of a car crushed by a Lombardy poplar in Queenstown on January 17.
A ''very temporary'' track has been cut through the Dart Valley, detouring around a massive landslip and newly formed lake to restore tramping access to the area.
It is a fine line creating a festive, fun atmosphere in a tourist town such as Queenstown, but also one that is safe and encourages personal responsibility. In the third part of our series Booze Control: Stop and Think, Queenstown reporter Tracey Roxburgh talks to a Queenstown Lakes District Council staff member about how they try to find this balance.
Arrowtown-based artist Jenny Mehrtens has marked the Chinese New Year with a series of paintings inspired by Chinese gold-miners who helped settle the Wakatipu 150 years ago.
Within the next month Arrowtown cricketers, both young and old, will have a place to call their own on Millbrook Corner with the construction of the Millbrook Cricket Club's pavilion and toilets.
Wakatipu rugby fanatics will be able to hear from Highlander and former All Black Brad Thorn and some of his team-mates at a special function in Queenstown this week, before team's first pre-season match of 2014.
Perceptions of Queenstown being a town full of ''drunken violence'' may be wide of the mark. However, there is no denying there are issues with alcohol and violence in the resort
Two brothers from the United States have documented their whirlwind, action-packed visit to Queenstown in videos on a travel website.
An Auckland arborist is expected to complete an assessment of about 22 trees along Lake Esplanade today - but it is too soon to say if any need to be felled after a 120-year-old Lombardy poplar was blown over on Friday night.
Temperatures in the Wakatipu plummeted last week as mountain ranges around the area received a dusting of summer snow.
Organisers of the inaugural Queenstown International Marathon are thrilled with the response to the event, which has received more than 150 entries in the first few weeks they have been open.
Two Australians were among 16 children who last week spent part of their summer holidays completing a week-long water safety course at the Wakatipu High School Pool.
Former Southland mayor Frana Cardno is ''honoured'' to be recognised for her work in the district she represented for 21 years.
Brothers Alex and Marko Ayling have just finished what was quite possibly the best job in the world - visiting 26 destinations across the world in 24 weeks.
A Queenstown woman says she was choked and attempts were made to gouge her eyes while driving a young Englishwoman she had picked up moments earlier on Christmas Day.
