Queenstown Police reported a relatively trouble-free weekend, but are urging people to drink responsibly, look after their friends and stay alert on the roads.
Olympic rowing gold medallist Mahe Drysdale has been announced as the latest drawcard playing in the 2013 NZ PGA Pro-Am at The Hills, in Arrowtown.
Sunday marked the official end of Alpine Health & Fitness' 2012 Revive programme. Today, Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief shares her final Dear Diary - and the results.
Queenstown's fast hydroslide, which has been out of action for more than three years, will not be open by Christmas as the Queenstown Lakes District Council had anticipated.
A fire that destroyed an unoccupied Queenstown property in September, initially treated as suspicious, was started by an electric cooker - which had been left on for about two months.
Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh documents her progress in the 12-week Revive programme at Alpine Health and Fitness.
Nick Lynch, of Arrowtown - a member of popular band the Lynch Mob - called a ''family meeting'' in July to tell them of his plans to jump on the wagon until Christmas.
Arrowtown Primary School year 6 pupils, from left, Billy Conner (11), Geena Slow (11), Ayden Vescio (10) and Gabe White (10), with teacher Janey Winders, stand in front of the mural the children helped create. The art work, which is hung in the school's hall, was highly commended by judges in the Resene mural masterpieces national competition.
A prominent Auckland lawyer has been appointed the independent chairman of an evaluation panel to assess proposals for a convention centre in Queenstown.
Rising country music singer Jody Direen has come a long way since performing in the Otago Daily Times' Big Night In at Forsyth Barr Stadium last year - and come April she will be going even further.
Australian adventure runner Richard Bowles - described as a ''hybrid of Bear Grylls and Forrest Gump'' - is entering the final week of a 3054km run along the Te Araroa trail, which stretches from Cape Reinga to Bluff - earning himself a well-earned lunch in Queenstown today.
Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh documents her progress in the 12-week Revive programme at Alpine Health and Fitness.
Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh documents her progress in the 12-week Revive programme at Alpine Health and Fitness. Dear Diary... Saturday, November 24Today, accomplished...
The Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind received almost half a million dollars from a Dunedin couple yesterday, following a spirited auction in Queenstown.
Queenstown's Midtown Medical Ltd has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) to pay $20,248 to a former employee found to have been unjustifiably dismissed in November 2010.
The Civil Aviation Authority did not open a formal accident investigation following the disappearance of a Hughes 500 helicopter carrying two passengers in Fiordland almost nine years ago - and has no plans to investigate now.
Otago Daily Times Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh documents her progress in the 12-week Revive programme at Alpine Health and Fitness.
A chance meeting about 10 years ago gave rise to a mammoth project for a Dalefield couple, who last weekend celebrated the history of the family who once lived in the building they used to use as a woolshed.
A Queenstown woman who questioned where her quality of life had gone has now dedicated her time to helping others find theirs.
After some fingernail-breaking digging, sand-throwing and rock removal, 11-year-old Andie Gillings' hands were shaking too much to open the drawstring of the muslin bag she unearthed from a deep hole on the banks of the Shotover River on Saturday.
