For the third year running, Queenstown has been voted third in Travel + Leisure Magazine's 2008 'World's Best' awards category for best city, Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific.

The subsiding rock above a section of the Shotover River poses danger and the area has been closed to the public until further notice.

Film buffs, adventure enthusiasts, and armchair action followers flocked to the Lake Wanaka Centre for the sixth annual New Zealand Mountain Film Festival to enjoy five days of entertaining and inspiring films, workshops, exhibitions and ice sculpting works.

Queenstown Police have arrested a 24 year old Queenstown man this afternoon in relation to a head on collision on the Glenorchy-Queenstown Road on the 25th of June 2008.

Queenstown business people have a chance later this month to learn about carbon trading, carbon credits, world carbon markets and carbon opportunities.