Spring has sprung and with it the realisation hiding the winter weight under puffer jackets is no longer an option. After several attempts at getting fit, and multiple promises to maintain it, Otago Daily Times and Queenstown Times bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh has begun another fitness challenge: Alpine Health and Fitness' Revive programme.
The owner/pilot of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk died last year from a blunt-force head injury and severe facial fractures after his plane crashed at the Arrowtown golf course, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has found.
Ten Garston School pupils arrived in Queenstown yesterday, buzzing after a school camp in Wellington - for some of them, their first experience in a city.
A substantial expansion of the duty-free stores in both the international arrival and departures halls is on the way at Queenstown Airport, after an announcement this week by the airport and the stores' owner.
Forty-five community organisations in the Queenstown Lakes District have received funding grants totalling $96,250.82 from the SkyCity Queenstown Casino Community Trust.
With less than three weeks to go until the Queenstown Trail is officially opened, Destination Queenstown chief executive Graham Budd is "pretty excited" about the opportunities it will present.
More than 100 people were on board TSS Earnslaw on Wednesday night, to celebrate the launch of a book nine months in the making.
Close to $10,000 was raised on Wednesday night at the inaugural Harcourts Charity Gala Quiz and Auction for the Queenstown Lakes Family Centre.
The new Wanaka Police Station could be operational by mid-2013, after an appeal against the site's designation was resolved.
Two former Queenstown residents are under investigation by the Office of Fair Trading in Queensland, for making "false and misleading claims about its services and staff credentials".
Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand yesterday pledged $15,000 to the Save Fiordland Campaign preparing to take legal action should concessions be granted for either the Dart Passage Tunnel or the Fiordland Link Experience.
For the first time in its seven-year history, the $10 Queenstown Challenge to Cure Kids has sold out and 35 teams have registered for the three-day Amazing Race-style trek from Auckland to Queenstown next month.
Former Jack's Point Clubhouse chef Andy Lisseman has taken up a role with The Flyer Cafe in Kingston, where he aims to showcase the cafe as a "destination experience".
The Kingston Flyer will fire up again on Saturday, ready for the 2012-13 summer season following winter-long maintenance on the rails.
The death of property developer and one of New Zealand's wealthiest men, Eamon Cleary, will be marked by the University of Otago, where the billionaire established the Chair in Irish Studies in 2006.
The Lakes District Museum has "resolved the differences" with a staff member made redundant after a restructuring last year, in an out of court settlement.
Spring has sprung and with it the realisation hiding the winter weight under puffer jackets is no longer an option. Despite several attempts at getting fit - and multiple promises to maintain it - Otago Daily Times and Queenstown Times bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh today begins another fitness challenge - Alpine Health and Fitness' Revive programme.
Almost 10 years to the day of the deed being signed for the Wakatipu Trails Trust, now Queenstown Trails Trust, the generosity of 24 Wakatipu landowners, instrumental in the formation of the soon-to-be-opened Queenstown Trail, was celebrated.
Seven of 14 proposals regarding Queenstown Lakes District Council office accommodation should proceed to stage two of the process, the council has decided.
Queenstown Airport Corporation's $4.3 million extension to its departure facilities was a show of confidence in the tourism market at a time when many believed the industry was "on its knees", Deputy Prime Minister and Clutha-Southland MP Bill English said yesterday.
