The Queenstown Gardens has been a central and much loved part of Queenstown for just over 150 years.
In these times of rising living costs holidays can be out of the question for many families, but if you’re heading to, or live in, the Queenstown-Lakes, Central Otago region they don’t need to break the bank.
Rail royalty has returned to the tracks at Kingston with the re-introduction of a much-loved heritage gem, The Kingston Flyer vintage steam train, to the list of popular local tourist attractions.
Central Otago’s acclaimed wine and cuisine takes centre stage at a brand new four-day celebration in and around the Southern Lakes and Central Otago regions in January.
With demand for sustainability, and customers opting for seasonal and local, the many free market days operating around the Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago region are increasingly becoming a destination day out.
Lakes District Museum and its popular interactive intrigue just got a whole lot more interesting with the completion of a massive $3.5 million earthquake strengthening and redevelopment, officially opened on December 9.
Relay For Life - Te Ara Toiora - is a Cancer Society community fundraising event filled with energy and emotion. After the covid interruptions of the past few years the event will be reignited next year on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 March at Wānaka’s Pembroke Park.
A hugely successful Queenstown charity golf tournament, attracting some big names, raised about $35,000 for Whānau āwhina Plunket this month. The sought after, two-day 2022 Cello Invitational Pro-Am – one of the PGA of New Zealand’s premier pro-ams, teed off at Millbrook Resort, progressing to the Jack’s Point course on the second day. It provided the perfect opportunity for pro golfers to play the NZPGA circuit.
An apple grows on a tree in Cromwell with sunshine, water, good soil and some love. It gets picked and driven to a shop to be sold. A few days later a new shiney batch of apples arrives and our apple hasn’t been bought yet, so it’s taken off the shelf and put in the bin. That evening a family in Fernhill sits down to eat another dinner of 2-minute noodles, unable to afford fresh nutritious food. All while a perfectly good apple sits in the bin just down the road, ready to be buried in a landfill site.
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