Five years from its inception, the Queenstown Resort College has grown from a modest operation catering for 11 students to a fully-fledged tertiary institution with a student population of just under 300. Joe Dodgshun spoke to graduate Graeme Sharp, now manager of a luxury safari camp in Zimbabwe.
Fourteen submissions were received by Lakes Environmental on a proposal for Mt Dewar Station to build a visitor accommodation facility - all but one in opposition.
Former Queenstown Airport Corporation chairman Mark Taylor's forced resignation was "a great loss for the board, Queenstown Airport and the community", the remaining three directors said in a statement yesterday.
In a "very unusual" move, the High Court will sit in Queenstown next month, to preside over a judicial review for the Queenstown-Auckland airports alliance.
When Wakatipu Trails Trust chief executive Kaye Parker found out a fortnight ago the trust had received a $951,000 grant from the Community Trust of Southland, she "might have shrieked down the phone".
Speed restrictions along a section of Malaghans Rd, between Arrowtown and Queenstown, will remain in place over winter, after the Queenstown Lakes District Council announced a $900,000 construction project would be split in two parts and completed in spring.
The row over the sale of Queenstown Airport Corporation shares to Auckland International Airport claimed its first victim yesterday when chairman Mark Taylor "resigned".
A $951,000 grant from the Community Trust of Southland has taken the Wakatipu Trails Trust another step closer to its $5 million fund-raising goal to establish the Queenstown Trail and has enabled construction of the 90km trail to begin.
A Christchurch couple is looking to make it two in a row in this month's Routeburn Classic, having crossed the finish line in first place during last year's event.
Despite eight years of emotional, psychological and physical abuse Sarah - not her real name - lived in a state of "perpetual hope" that things would get better.
An eye-catching photographic mural at the entrance of the Remarkables Park Town Centre in Frankton will remain in place for the duration of the 2011 Festival of Colour.
Lakes Leisure is looking for 10 Queenstown residents wanting to lose at least 25kg to take part in a fully-sponsored health and fitness makeover.
Discussions in Queenstown last week on the proposed Lakes District's integrated family healthcare centre were "undoubtedly ... tense at times", but integral in helping the Southern District Health Board (DHB), chief executive Brian Rousseau said yesterday.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will be asked to consider approving a further $26,400 at its meeting next week to help fund community forums, discussing the need for an independent events organisation and an economic future agency.
A small crowd of rugby fans - including some teenagers who had travelled from Timaru - gathered in chilly temperatures at the Queenstown Recreation Ground yesterday to watch South African Super 15 rugby team the Bulls go through its paces ahead of its game in Timaru this weekend. The Bulls, with a squad of about 28 players and 12 management and support staff, arrived in the resort on Sunday - as did the 40-man Cheetahs squad, also from South Africa, ahead of its game against the Highlanders in Dunedin this weekend. Highlanders marketing manager Doug McSweeney said most travelling tour parties spent time in the resort between New Zealand fixtures if they had a game in the South Island.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has called an extraordinary meeting, to be held behind closed doors tomorrow, to discuss "airport litigation - notice of motion".
The annual Big Queenstown Downwinder, a long-distance event for kiters and windsurfers, was finally held on Saturday after being postponed several times.
About 60 competitors turned out at Jacks Point on Saturday afternoon to compete in the fourth Southern Tri Series event. The same course hosted the 2011 National School Championship Triathlon last week.
About 140 people turned out in Arrowtown last Wednesday to play bingo and raise money for 15 volunteer firefighters heading to Auckland to compete in the eighth annual Sky Tower Challenge.
A former Nightline presenter, a TV3 reporter, the face of Postie Plus, the Queenstown Lakes Mayor, and a New Zealand ski racer were among those strutting their stuff on the catwalk in Queenstown on Friday night, helping to raise more than $3000 for the Salvation Army Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.
