NewsBank (Mountain Scene)

IT’S not too shabby for an opening day.

A SIXTH charity’s been added to the beneficiaries of the annual Latitude 45 South charity event.

A PINK Ribbon Breakfast at Arrowtown’s Mora Wines & Artisan Kitchen last month raised $27,920 for the Breast Cancer Foundation.

THEY’RE too young to vote, yet they can fight fires and save lives.

A TWO-level apartment development in Queenstown’s Remarkables Park appears to be hitting the sweet spot with the market.

A QUEENSTOWNER is off to China at year’s end to represent New Zealand at the Mrs United Nations International pageant.

ARROWTOWNERS will soon be able to take a back road bus to get to Queenstown’s CBD — almost halving the current travel time.

HAVING suffered a first-round away loss to Maniototo, 22-19, one of only two this season, Wakatipu will be out for revenge when they host the Ranfurly-based team at the Queenstown Recreation Ground this Saturday at 2.30pm.

Bike bus talk

QUEENSTOWNER Gemma Thomas is an Oceania karate champ.

Artist, golfer and former farmer Jane Burdon has enjoyed a very varied life. She talks to Philip Chandler about her life before she met her husband-to-be in a Queenstown pub 60-plus years ago, where it’s taken her since, and explains why their honeymoon plans were scuppered

GIVE the ball to ‘Vegas’.

THE National-led government’s South Island minister believes lifting the foreign buyer ban for $5million-plus Queenstown residential properties makes sense.

MORE than 20 coalition government MPs heard about Bitcoin last week from a Whakatipu-led delegation invited to Parliament by local MP Joseph Mooney.

QUEENSTOWN’S Sherwood has come up trumps in the 2025 Lion Hospitality New Zealand (HNZ) Business Awards for Excellence.

A QUEENSTOWN couple believe their art gallery at Frankton’s Country Lane is the only one in New Zealand with works by English street artist Banksy on the walls.

A QUEENSTOWN brewer is, quite literally, upping the ant-e.

A QUEENSTOWN rower who’s competed for New Zealand in under-19 world champs for the past two years is now also a United States national university champion.

AN Arrowtown distillery is officially on top of the world.

TWO neighbouring residential properties close to Queenstown’s CBD have sold for mega-bucks in a sign development sections are becoming attractive again.

QUEENSTOWN skydiving operator NZONE could move south to Kingston in six years’ time.

In its application, Seek Night Club Ltd said when it reopened it would remain a tavern till its adult entertainment liquor licence was granted.

A CO-working space for ‘‘doers and dreamers’’ has opened in Frankton.

JAMES Meager says he supports the proposal for a regional deal the Queenstown Lakes, Central Otago and Otago Regional councils have put to the government, describing it as ‘‘very good’’.

QT Queenstown is about to expand.

YOU can call her Judy.

QUEENSTOWN kids and RealNZ staff and their families joined forces last weekend to honour one of the company’s founders.

A SLICE of prime Crown Terrace land above Arrowtown failed to attract a buyer at a rare mortgagee auction.

QUEENSTOWN’S Carlos Bagrie can now add Guinness World Record-holder to his list of achievements.

AND then there were seven.