Justin van Wichen is the type of mate you'd like to think you had. The type of mate who is about to cycle 2200km, from Nelson to Bluff and return, to support Dave Cochrane, a friend in clinical remission with Hodgkin's lymphoma.
A new funding source for regional business initiatives could help to bring more tourists from China to Otago, help set up a new film studio and assist a Dunedin business incubator to explore the demand for business support, Otago Forward chairman Queenstown Lakes Mayor Clive Geddes said yesterday.
Queenstown police have turned to the social networking site Facebook as another way of catching criminals in their area.
Scott Columb could be considered one of the lucky ones. While many of us spend our working week counting down the hours until it's time to knock off for the day or week, and dreaming of what we might do differently in our next life, Columb loves every second of his life and wouldn't change it for the world.
A new child-care centre is on the cards for Queenstown if a resource consent application is approved by the Queenstown Lakes District Council.
Arrowtown residents will be hoping for plenty of sunshine this week to warm up the community's outdoor pool, which will open this weekend.
Access to the Macetown and Motatapu walking tracks, connecting Arrowtown to Glendhu Bay, just got easier with the opening of a new footbridge over the Arrow River.
A Queenstown businessman has entered a new career phase, reflecting his passions for tourism and rally driving in his tourism service company, Tourism Macs Ltd.
The Environment Court has found in favour of Wakatipu Cleanfill Ltd regarding its proposal to establish, operate and rehabilitate a cleanfill site within North Ridge Estate.
There is not much Lakes District Museum education officer Angela Verry does not know about cribs in Wakatipu, after spending the best part of 12 months researching, interviewing, gathering photos and compiling the information for an exhibition, "Cribbies".
Ten cabins at the Queenstown Lakeview Holiday Park may be put up for auction.
New Zealand's first multistage mountain bike race, over four days and five stages, and incorporating 5250m of vertical climbing, is set to be an event of epic proportions, co-organiser Nick Ross says.
The potential for "significant fires" has led the Southern Rural Fire Authority to declare a restricted fire season for the entire southern district.
Queenstown can now market itself as home to the best Guinness pint pourers in New Zealand after two of its residents took the top title at the Guinness Pint Master competition in Auckland on Thursday night.
After eight years at the helm of Lake Wanaka Tourism, chief executive John Alldred announced his resignation yesterday, due to health reasons.
Westpac customers will be serviced by two branches in Queenstown from April, when a 400sq m premises at Terrace Junction opens for business.
It is fair to say - cliched as it is - that golf was the winner yesterday, during the All Blacks' golf day at Jacks Point near Queenstown.
Lion Nathan yesterday disputed that "unlimited free alcohol" was made available to a man who allegedly assaulted his pregnant wife while in Queenstown at a Steinlager-sponsored meet-the-All Blacks event.
The Co-operative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies 2008 Research Symposium may be a bit of a mouthful, but for the 240 delegates from New Zealand, Australia and further afield, the conference being held in Queenstown is riveting stuff.
The scale and cost of the $40 million Queenstown wastewater treatment plant, combined with other infrastructure projects needed in the Wakatipu basin, would make the area "less affordable for locals and visitors alike", a resource consent hearing was told yesterday.
