Queenstown's "party town" reputation, coupled with drug dealers targeting the resort during winter months to "ply their wares", creates an environment "where lawlessness can flourish", Clutha-Southland MP Bill English says.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council's engineering department restructuring, outlined in the council's 10-year plan, is under way.
Ten "chickens" will fly the coop in Queenstown this morning, hoping to convince motorists to give them a ride, and to get a flying start in The Edge Incredible Chicken Race.
Cardrona Ski Resort Ltd was yesterday ordered to pay almost $60,000 including court costs in the Queenstown District Court before Judge Paul Keller, of Dunedin.
Swine flu infection-control procedures at Queenstown Airport will be "ramped up" in the next two weeks ahead of the winter influx of Australian visitors.
Queenstown Lakes District Council watchdog Andre Prassinos says he is assessing his options after the council refused to apologise to him.
A war of words which erupted between Wanaka resident Andre Prassinos and the Queenstown Lakes District Council last year has been investigated by the Privacy Commissioner.
It's Tuesday night and those walking past an old farmhouse in Arrowtown could be forgiven for thinking there's a party going on inside.
The fire is back in the bellies of the Southern Stampede squad going into the New Zealand Ice Hockey League.
wo of the historic Buckingham St Cottages in Arrowtown, at the centre of a battle between Irish developer Eamon Cleary and the Queenstown Lakes District Council in 2007, may soon be home to a cafe/art gallery and professional offices.
A $1500 grant from the Community Trust of Southland (CTOS) is helping to keep Jack Frost at bay at the Glenorchy Playgroup, with the installation of a new heat pump.
The developers of the gated Threepwood subdivision on prime land beside Lake Hayes have lodged a resource consent application which, if approved, would "re-create the lost characteristics of the setting which existed at the start of 2005".
Queenstown police made no further arrests yesterday relating to Operation Dove, but Detective Sergeant Grahme Bartlett said as further phases were carried out, more people would be charged.
One of New Zealand's longest-established ski shops, with a passion for the snowsports industry, will support the 2009 Winter Games NZ.
Queenstown Resort College is the naming sponsor of the inaugural Winter Games NZ grand finale, the Big Air.
The whirlwind tour of the Southern Lakes officially came to an end for Winter Games NZ 2009 delegates yesterday with praise coming from all corners, but the work is only just beginning for organisers.
Anyone wanting to volunteer for the inaugural Winter Games NZ, to be held across the Lakes District, Central Otago and Dunedin in August, is invited to an information night in Queenstown next month.
Southern drug dealers are under scrutiny after the arrest yesterday of nine people.
A total of 92 solar panels have been erected around Queenstown in recent months in preparation for Airways New Zealand to introduce its $2.5 million wide area multilateration (MLAT) surveillance system.
Mystery surrounds the death of a young English backpacker who, police believe, fell about 10m to his death from a building in the heart of Queenstown early yesterday.
