Otago Daily Times
By PHILIP CHANDLER
A Christchurch man traumatised by last year's terror attack this week visited a Queenstown hotel to thank staff for their kindness in the aftermath.
Yama Nabi presented a handmade rug to The Rees Hotel his family are pictured with...
By PHILIP CHANDLER
With Queenstown open only for domestic tourism in the short term, at least one accommodation venue's proving it could still pay off.
For Queen's Birthday weekend the occupancy level for Arrowtown's high-end Millbrook Resort is already 40 per cent.
July...
By GUY WILLIAMS
Arrowtown's Nicholas Holmes thought he'd had enough drama in 2020, but now finds himself stranded in French Guiana in a coronavirus lockdown.
Holmes arrived in the country on February 19 to visit his daughter Eva, 3, who lives in...
A Frankton man who threatened a team of arborists with a samurai sword last month has been jailed for 17 months.
Jason John Bastion, 32, was arrested by armed police on January 29 after threatening the arborists outside the entrance...
Long-time Allied Press reporter Tracey Roxburgh's been appointed as Mountain Scene's new editor and Otago Daily Times' Queenstown bureau chief.
Roxburgh, originally from Invercargill, graduated from Southern Institute of Technology’s
Peter Arnett School of Journalism, before starting out at The Southland...
On November 1, 1972, Johnny Nash's song I Can See Clearly Nowwas number one on the American charts.
Aussie actress Toni Collette and US model/actress Jenni McCarthy entered the world, while American poet Ezra Pound, aged 87, left it.
And, in...
Mountain Scene reporter Paul Taylor and freelance photographer Blair Pattinson have won Canon Media Awards.
Taylor was named community journalist of the year at last Friday's ceremony in Auckland, while Pattinson took the gong for best news photo.
Judges Jim Eagles and...