As the Lakes district prepares to enter "flood season" - this year marking the 10th anniversary of the district's major floods in 1999 - the Queenstown Lakes District Council emergency management officer is asking residents if they are prepared.
The Hills will soon be alive with the sound of music, with two concerts scheduled at the championship golf course in Arrowtown in the next month.
Kiwi Discovery managing director Vance Boyd yesterday welcomed the announcement of the terms of reference for a New Zealand adventure tourism review and hoped it would alter the "public perception . . . or misconception" of adventure tourism activities.
A section of State Highway 6 at Queenstown, which costs society $1,389,242 a year in crashes, may be upgraded by the New Zealand Transport Agency.
The investigation of an incident at Queenstown airport last month in which a Cessna aircraft began moving towards the runway minus its pilot could take up to 12 months to complete.
Thirty million dollars has been raised by the Queenstown Lakes District Council through its decision to issue wholesale bonds on the capital markets for the first time - saving the council an estimated $800,000 in interest payments.
Mad Dog River Boarding yesterday resumed operations on the Kawarau River.
It has been an unforgettable winter for NZSki at its Queenstown ski areas, with the closing of the Remarkables yesterday afternoon bringing the 2009 season to a close.
It has been 13 years since Arrowtown resident Brent MacDonald first decided to have a go at becoming a LandSAR avalanche dog handler - and he has not looked back.
The widow of a Queenstown farmer killed this month when a Lombardy poplar crushed his vehicle in Lower Shotover Rd said she was shell-shocked by the Queenstown Lakes District Council's decision not to fell the 66 trees.
Arrowtown residents have made more than 600 submissions on proposed plan changes relating to the town's urban growth boundary.
Whoever said you can't teach an old dog new tricks hasn't met Vice, the 6-year-old German shepherd, who has recently re-qualified as a LandSAR tracking dog - three and a-half years after an injury almost cost him his back left leg.
Queenstown's real estate market appears to be bouncing back, with all indications the bottom of the market has been reached.
Arrowtown will turn pink today to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Day and the organiser hopes residents, business owners and visitors will raise more than $3000 for the cause.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will be inundated this afternoon with more than 500 submissions on district plan changes 29 and 30 from a group of concerned Arrowtown residents.
A new subdivision northeast of Queenstown offering 30 houses for between $485,000 and $650,000 each has been launched.
Maritime New Zealand's safety audit of Mad Dog Riverboarding will now be carried out this week.
The Cardinal Sin team of Ant Carter and Craig Burborough, who travelled New Zealand carrying a gnome as their mascot before auctioning it online, been named the winners of the 2009 Novotel $10 Queenstown Challenge to Cure Kids.
Strengthening aviation security partnerships around the globe will be the theme of the 2010 AAAE/IAAE International Airport Security Conference, which will be hosted by Queenstown International Airport.
The list of awards continues to grow for Michael Hill's Arrowtown golf course, The Hills - this time the planners and resource management lawyers have been recognised.
