A strong summer has sent the Queenstown Lakes District Council's holiday parks back into the black, with a report to the council's finance and corporate committee showing the books are $67,000 up on last year.
The New Zealand Transport Agency is about four weeks away from completing the most extensive work on the Nevis Bluff since 2000, with about 600cu m of rock removed from its face.
Department of Conservation Wakatipu area manager Greg Lind is confident the ''idiot'' who tagged various structures the length of the Routeburn Track last month will be apprehended and prosecuted.
The net is closing on the person responsible for tagging ''Rowdy'' in felt pen along the Routeburn Track last month, following reports the perpetrator had been leaving their mark all over the South Island.
For Arrowtown couple Hayden Finch and Bex Harrex, yesterday's Budget was not what they were hoping for.
The Queenstown postal worker who stole thousands of pieces of mail from Wakatipu residents has been sentenced to 17 months in jail.
SkyCity Entertainment Group has further increased its interest in Queenstown, buying Otago Casinos Ltd, which holds the licence for Wharf Casino.
A report into a planned ''boutique'' rental housing development in Arrowtown, valued at more than $3.5 million, recommends the community be consulted over the proposal, Local Government Act 2012 requirements appearing to have been satisfied.
A new ''boutique'' affordable housing project could be on the way for Arrowtown if a $1 million grant from the Crown is approved and the project is endorsed by the Queenstown Lakes District Council and the community.
Information relating to ratepayers' paying of rates in the Queenstown Lakes district included in the council's organisational review report is misleading, the council's finance general manager says.
St Joseph's School pupils (from left) Emy-Jane Robert (12), Isaac Norton (13) and Luca March (12) enjoy some of the thousands of books delivered to the Queenstown school before its annual book fair this weekend.
Freedom campers caught breaking the rules in the Queenstown Lakes District have been hit in the pocket to the tune of $117,000.
The Department of Conservation has now made a formal complaint to Queenstown Police in relation to tagging along the Routeburn Track.
Night-time closures and increased monitoring on the Milford road will continue until weather conditions allow the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to finish an inspection of a rockfall area.
Motorists upset by regular hold-ups on State Highway 6 at the Nevis Bluff in the Kawarau Gorge are asking why a permanent fix can't be found to stop the instability which at times sends huge rocks raining down on the highway. The NZ Transport Agency took Tracey Roxburgh of the Otago Daily Times high above the area to explain why there is no simple ''fix'' for the problem.
Despite the Civil Aviation Authority seeking submissions on whether it should issue an ''Airworthiness Directive'' to owners and operators of Robinson R44 helicopters regarding retrofitting of fuel tanks, the majority of operators had probably already complied, one helicopter operator says.
For 40 minutes at the Queenstown Recreation Ground on Saturday, it seemed Highlanders Andrew Hore and Tony Woodcock, playing for Maniototo, would finally know what it felt like to win this season.
With both Wakatipu and Arrowtown rugby teams coming away from the weekend with wins, Saturday's battle of the basin between the two sides is shaping up to be another epic encounter.
Queenstown police want to speak to three men in their 30s who followed two 15-year-old girls in the resort on Saturday afternoon.
By 1906, the Arrowtown area boasted six schools, including a high school, the last to open.
