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Posted 18 September, 2025

The Otago Central Lakes Regional Deal Negotiation Committee has appointed Conor English, Director of Silvereye, as the Negotiator to help steer the Otago Central Lakes Regional Deal negotiations.

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Posted 18 September, 2025

Police have had a great public response to calls earlier this week for information and footage after a man, still Christchurch Hospital with serious injuries, was found at the Moke Lake Road intersection on Glenorchy Road about 6.15pm on Sunday.

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Posted 17 September, 2025

Queenstown bus fares are going up from the end of this month.

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Posted 17 September, 2025

Growing up under strict Communist rule in Poland, highly respected Queenstown osteopath Kasia (Katrina) Lukaszewicz saved £900 waitressing in London to marry a random Irishman in a bid to escape.

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Posted 17 September, 2025

The Department of Conservation (DOC) plans to increase predator control in South Island beech forests, ahead of a major predicted beech 'mast'.

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Posted 16 September, 2025

At the World’s Edge Festival (AWE) will celebrate their fifth festival this year, in October. They’ll be delivering an extensive programme of chamber music across Queenstown, Bannockburn, Wānaka and Cromwell.

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Posted 16 September, 2025

A rare UK-based aircraft will be one of the International stars of next Easter’s Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow as the event marks the 90th anniversary of the first ever flight of the iconic Spitfire.

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Posted 16 September, 2025

New Zealand is in for another celestial treat next week with a partial solar eclipse which will only be visible for handful of countries.

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Posted 16 September, 2025

Two 24-year-old overindulging, heavily-intoxicated Australian men sparked a burglary call-out after they were seen banging on the door and trying to break into a St Matthews Place property on Queenstown Hill .

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Posted 16 September, 2025

Queenstown transport group The Lightfoot Initiative is encouraging parents to write directly to Education Minister Erica Stanford over the touted removal of school buses.

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Posted 15 September, 2025

Police investigating a Queenstown incident which left a man with serious injuries are seeking help from the public.

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Posted 15 September, 2025

Police are continuing enquiries into an incident which left a man with serious injuries in Queenstown.

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Posted 14 September, 2025

A Queenstown hotelier made a string of false claims, after the business's luxury "heli-crayfish experience" caught the attention of fisheries officers, documents show.

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Posted 14 September, 2025

A 30-year-old man faces a range of charges after Police seized a sawn-off shotgun, cocaine and shotgun shells from a vehicle in Queenstown.

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Posted 12 September, 2025

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Posted 12 September, 2025

Salmonella Dub are coming to Queenstown to celebrate their 33.33rd birthday and the release of their digitally re-mastered full back catalogue.

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Posted 11 September, 2025

Twenty-five years ago, Aaron Fleming was told he’d never physically exert himself again. This Sunday, he’ll stand on the start line of the men’s IRONMAN World Championship in Nice, France.

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Posted 11 September, 2025

Mental Health by Katherine Froggatt

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Posted 11 September, 2025

An estimated $44,000 of public money to fly Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to the top of a Queenstown mountain is a publicity stunt "gone badly wrong", Labour leader Chris Hipkins says.

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Posted 11 September, 2025

A late burst of spring snow has allowed Snow Farm NZ to extend its winter season by two weeks into the school holidays.

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