At a meeting this afternoon (Tuesday August 26) between Queenstown Rafting and the Queenstown Lakes District Council, it was agreed that rafting could resume on the Shotover River after a major slip near the river’s edge finally fell last week.

Find out what’s best for the future of family, business and lifestyle at the What’s Best? Expo on 25 October at the Otago Polytechnic Cromwell Campus.

A high calibre international field is competing alongside the cream of New Zealand’s ski racing at the Volkswagen National Ski Championships at Coronet Peak from Thursday August 28 – Saturday August 30.

Six senior glacier guides working in Franz Josef have boosted their combined 30-plus years of guiding experience with the newly introduced New Zealand Mountain Guide Association (NZMGA) Hard Ice qualification.

A large slip above the Shotover River, which has closed the river to commercial operators for six weeks, has finally fallen.