Community

Three recent major announcements from the Government are particularly positive for Queenstown and demonstrate our focus on delivering the change our community needs.

Sustainable Queenstown’s first ever Refashion event last month had audiences asking for bigger, better, more!

Cancer is a sneaky beast but every year (in fact it seems like every week at the moment!) treatments get more effective and less toxic.

It feels as if I’m sending my column in every day but apparently it’s only every week - I guess it’s old age making me think life is flying past far too fast.

We firmly believe in the benefits of our young people engaging in the arts.

Frankton Food Rescue Riders may sound like the latest action movie heroes, and well, they are, but theirs is a much more vital role.

Three Gen-Z teenage digital natives with a passion to enlighten the older generation on all things tech are launching a series of free weekly workshops for the tech-illiterate at Frankton from March 13.

Sustainable Queenstown’s Slow Fashion Campaign is back!

Renowned Queenstown sports chiropractor Neki Patel is now one of just nine chiropractors worldwide to sit on the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (FICS) executive board and heads to a three-day board meeting in Portugal this July.

Southland on the move – Infrastructure and resource management in the fast lane

The NZOpen is here again and the very best thing about it is that we can have yoga on the lawn tennis courts at Millbrook instead of in the cramped little fitness room.

As part of the Aotearoa Bike Challenge, Queenstown women have been telling us why they’re on their bikes.

Between them they can boast an impressive line-up of academic, sporting, cultural and humanitarian abilities and accomplishments, but they’re a humble bunch too, so Wakatipu High School’s five new student leaders are instead focused on everybody else.

It’s been my experience in my more than two decades of volunteering, that if you are feeling stuck, underappreciated, or have been told you are not ready to lead that big project or land that coveted promotion at work, it’s time to look outside of your role.

If you want to know the benefits of “Buddying” ask Big Buddy Siobhan Adcock and her Buddy George Robbie.

Volunteer South invites anyone involved in recruiting volunteers to join them in February for their Volunteer Engagement workshop.

After a six-year hiatus, Aspiring Conversations returns to our beautiful backyard from 4-7 April, hosting 14 events across three venues to stimulate the mind and feed the soul.

The Hill family has donated $90,000 to support the preservation of native wildlife and biodiversity in the region.

They may be relatively remote from the main urban areas but that hasn’t stopped the Glenorchy community from leading the charge in the southern region with its hugely successful door-to-door community composting programme.