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Posted 19 February, 2025

Queenstown Airport will pay a $7 million to its shareholders this month, reflecting a strong start to the year.

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Posted 18 February, 2025

Famous Queenstown burger joint, Fergburger has apologised to a customer after an order receipt contained a racial slur.

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Posted 18 February, 2025

Competition is heating up in the elite field for this year’s Motatapu mountain bike race with National U23 and U19 Cross Country National Champions Maria Laurie and Eddie Adams the latest athletes to add their names to the start list.

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Posted 18 February, 2025

Property investors looking for a way to spread the risk on their portfolio may be turning in increasing numbers to short-term rentals, one investor group suggests.

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Posted 18 February, 2025

Much weaker than anticipated ground conditions at the road work site near Queenstown’s Kawarau river bridge means a week’s more work, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) says.

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Posted 17 February, 2025

Overnight parking has been banned at Queenstown Events Centre to improve access for its users.

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Posted 16 February, 2025

Poland’s Szymon Godziek and Cami Nogueira from Argentina laid down incredible runs to earn the top podium spots at the inaugural Natural Selection Bike Aotearoa.

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Posted 14 February, 2025

Former All Black captain Richie McCaw is one of the sporting greats taking on the New Zealand Open Pro-Am later this month.

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Posted 14 February, 2025

Liger Leadership Academy founders Trevor Gile and Agnieszka Tynkiewicz-Gile have been recognised for their significant contributions to education in Cambodia.

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Posted 14 February, 2025

Queenstown's Alice Robinson has made history overnight, securing New Zealand’s first-ever FIS Alpine Ski Racing World Championships medal with a silver in Giant Slalom.

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Posted 13 February, 2025

Otago Regional Council’s Natural Hazards team will be in Glenorchy today and tomorrow (13 and 14 February) to talk face to face with the community about the Draft Head of Lake Whakatipu Natural Hazards Strategy.

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Posted 12 February, 2025

Eighteen takahē were released on to 18,000ha of leasehold land in the Rees Valley near Queenstown yesterday, after three years of major predator control operations.

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Posted 12 February, 2025

The police say a missing man has not been located, despite a large-scale search of the Rob Roy Stream area yesterday (Tuesday, February 11).

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Posted 12 February, 2025

Construction of the 32km Kawarau Gorge Trail, which links Bannockburn to the Gibbston Valley, has officially passed the halfway mark.

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Posted 12 February, 2025

The husband of an Invercargill woman found dead at Lake Hāwea last year has been charged with her murder.

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Posted 11 February, 2025

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is seeking community feedback on its draft Events Policy.

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Posted 11 February, 2025

A large-scale search is underway this morning (Tuesday, 11 February) as police and Wānaka Search and Rescue (SAR) continue their work to locate a man reported missing in a river in Mt Aspiring National Park

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Posted 10 February, 2025

New data shows luxury property sales across the country have dropped by more than 50 percent in the last four years.

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Posted 10 February, 2025

Wānaka skiers and snowboarders continue their world class form, with both Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Luca Harrington taking to the podium yet again last week.

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Posted 9 February, 2025

The line-up for Natural Selection Bike has been confirmed following a huge Friday afternoon of competition at the Dream Ticket event qualifier in Queenstown.

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