Tracey Roxburgh

The 31st running of the Donald Hay Classic Yacht Race will include a new breed of high-tech sports boat, which, it is hoped, will generate a new following for lightweight racing yachts.

Like any good movie world premiere, it started with a pot luck dinner.

Two Queenstown beauty businesses have joined forces to help the Breast Cancer Cure Research Trust this month, with a fundraiser which aims to collect at least $1000.

The world's largest and most efficient milk powder drier was officially opened in Edendale by Prime Minister John Key yesterday.

Corporate golfers are being encouraged to enter a team for a New Zealand regional golf tournament at Millbrook next month, with a chance of representing New Zealand in South Africa at the World Corporate Golf Challenge in May.

An Arrowtown-based trust has applied for resource consent for a five-lot subdivision in Arrow Junction Rd.

The "Lady of the Lake" has waited 98 years to be skippered by a woman - and the appointment of Lisa McIlroy as TSS Earnslaw's first female captain has been described as a milestone for the ship and its owner, Real Journeys.

At the tender age of 12, Don McLean fell in love with flying.

One man got the jump on the Valentine's Day marriage proposals in Queenstown yesterday, asking his partner of four years to marry him by landing on a sign after a 15,000-foot tandem skydive with NZone.

Only in Glenorchy would the "world premiere" of a movie also be its last showing.

Marketing Queenstown is possibly both the easiest and hardest job in the resort, but the man who has been charged with the new role could not be more excited.

Sir Eion Edgar hoped others would learn they could get "a lot of pleasure" from helping people after he was named the Ryman Healthcare Senior New Zealander of the Year at a national awards ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday night.