Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh documents the highs and lows in the Queenstown Winter Festival Lindauer Ladies Fitness and Fashion Challenge.
By day, Erin Gray is a solicitor at Berry and Co in Queenstown, but she swaps her business suit for a firefighting uniform on a regular basis, most recently last Saturday when she climbed Auckland's Sky Tower in record time, winning the women's race.
One of life's great mysteries - what lies at the heart of human behaviour - will be making Queenstown's youth dotty from next month, during three one-day workshops aimed at high school pupils and recent school leavers.
In just over a month, a plane-load of passengers will leave Auckland with full heads of hair - and arrive in Queenstown bald.
A 50-year-old Queenstown woman is in Burwood Hospital in Christchurch following a serious mountain bike accident near Arrowtown recently.
Queenstown bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh documents the highs and lows in the Queenstown Winter Festival Lindauer Ladies Fitness and Fashion Challenge.
A year ago, two Queenstown residents sat around a campfire in Australia and talked about how great it would be to "check out South America" on motorbikes.
The 2010 Bhangra night, organised by Mantra Restaurant, went off without a hitch on Saturday night.
Queenstown Times Bureau chief Tracey Roxburgh charts the ups and downs of training for the Lindauer Fitness and Fashion Challenge.
In November 2008, Dick McArthur fell 10m down a cliff at his Alexandra home, leaving him a tetraplegic. His daughter Fiona, of Queenstown, had no idea then the effect his life-changing experience would have on her as well.
Conflicting opinions were expressed during the third day of a hearing into a proposed private plan change at Arrowtown yesterday.
The "lungs" of the Queenstown Lakes district - land in the rural general zone - needed to be protected, Dame Elizabeth Hanan told commissioners yesterday during a hearing for private plan change 39 (Arrowtown south).
An incident on Lake Wakatipu last week prompted Coastguard New Zealand to issue a reminder to boat users of "a few simple rules" before going out on to the water.
Queenstown has been chosen as the venue for Cookie Time's first Cookie Bar, which is also the biscuit company's first store outside its Christchurch headquarters.
Change was inevitable, but managing it would be the key to the success of Arrowtown's growth, the "instigator" of Plan Change 39: Arrowtown South told commissioners on the first day of a hearing in the town yesterday.
Saturday, May 1 5.40pm: Friend gets into car for a ride. Brings with her slice of fruitcake, fresh from oven. Cannot even look at cake for fear I will eat it whole and maybe also take...
An estimated 5000 house-holds in Gibbston, Arrowtown and Wanaka, plus some areas of Alexandra and Cromwell, were left without Internet or phones for about three and a-half hours yesterday, after a contractor struck a fibre optic cable near Lake Hayes.
New Zealand's online safety organisation NetSafe will be holding its first international conference on "cybercitizens" in Queenstown later this month.
The immediate flood risk may be over in Queenstown, but the Queenstown Lakes District and Otago Regional councils will remain "in a state of preparedness", Queenstown Mayor Clive Geddes says.
Arrowtown will host a "colourful, cultural extravaganza" next week when Mantra Indian Restaurant hosts its third Bhangra night.
