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The Accor $10 Queenstown Race to Cure Kids has raised $285,000 which will help fund a life saving national screening programme for cardiac inherited diseases.

The three day race involving 24 teams of two finished in Queenstown today and Cure Kids general manager Thelma French is overwhelmed with the final tally which far exceeded their expectations.

“Originally I set the target at $250,000 but felt it was...

The Thai Minister of the Interior, Amonrapun Numanandh and a group of some 80 personnel from the Tourism Development delegation group of Tak province, Thailand, visited Queenstown on Monday the 18th September.

They started their day off with a visit to Queenstown Top 10 Holiday Park Creeksyde. Erna Spijkerbosch spoke with the group for 40 minutes on being a New Zealand holiday park and Green Globe Certification.

By Michelle Duff

Last year someone stole a bowl of breakfast cereal from the Ben Lomond restaurant in Rydges hotel, Queenstown. The police had no firm leads; however, as the Sergeant in charge of the investigation had told a local reporter later that day, all the information gathered so far pointed to the fact that the theft may have occurred at around breakfast time. As the months have passed this case has remained unsolved, tossed to the back of some ancient filing cabinet to collect dust and coffee stains while the Queenstown boys in blue have gone on to solve other, argueably...

By Kelly Hertzog

When we think of going on a holiday, for most of us Russia is probably not the first place that comes to mind. It doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily as Fiji, the Gold Coast or the Hamptons. It is an unfamiliar country shrouded in secrecy and perhaps misunderstanding.

So when local radio celebrity Craig Dillon won a trip to Russia through a Stil Vodka promotion, it surprised many people that he chose to take the trip,...

In 1974, Queenstowner’s watched with amusement as Hylton Hensman bought and then moved an all concrete house across town to Fryer Street. In the 60’s Bill & Lovey Aikman & the Bright's were living amongst trees where the present Primary School is when the Council and Education Board did a land swap to shift the school from Stanley Street to Robins Road.