Sometimes we advise people, ‘go jump in the lake’, but that’s actually happening during tomorrow’s opening party for a jam-packed 10-day Queenstown Bike Festival.
A world-renowned farm in Paradise, near Glenorchy, has finally changed hands almost four years after it sold — but a scrap over $4.5 million in penalty interest is still going to court.
Country music legend Reg McTaggart was a trouper to the end: the 79-year-old Arrowtown musician’s final gig was in Cromwell just two weeks before he died.
Kiwi singer-songwriter James Reid, whose iconic band, The Feelers, are playing Arrowtown in January admits he has looked at buying property in Queenstown.
After 20 years as a foundation director of local ski rental business Snowbiz, long-time Queenstowner Euan ‘Urb’ Paterson’s become the main lessee of Arthurs Point’s historic Gantley’s Tavern.
In a move that floats his boat, the owner of Queenstown’s Wet Jacket Wines has sold his historic woolshed ‘cellar door’ at Lake Hayes and set up at the Frankton marina.
Two Queenstowners, an international climate scientist and an eminent ecologist and botanist, are blown away to have been named semi-finalists in the latest Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards...