Tens of thousands of passengers will pass through Queenstown Airport over the next fortnight, as the town returns to pre-Covid levels of busyness.
The Queenstown Housing Initiative says reports of overcrowded properties are a safety concern.
Police will be continuing to target dealers peddling MDMA (ecstasy) and other even more dangerous concoctions being passed off locally as ecstasy and warn parents of teenagers to talk about drug use with their kids.
The private investigator for the family of Mike Zhao-Beckenridge believes police did not investigate the disappearance of the boy and his stepfather John Beckenridge thoroughly enough.
H&J Smith Group has confirmed 18 November will be the last day of trading for its Remarkables Park Queenstown, Invercargill and Gore stores.
A Queenstown migrant worker says she is being charged $250 a week to live with more than 25 other people in a poorly kept, overcrowded property.
As the streetscapes is completed, another is infrastructure project about to get underway.
Queenstown's multi-million-dollar downtown streets revamp was officially opened on Friday.
A woman has been arrested and drugs, ammunition and firearms have been seized following search warrants in Central Otago.
Calls to bring back the original community-style Queenstown Winter Festival aimed at providing fun for locals have the backing of many of the festival’s early founders and organisers, happy to get involved.
Treble Cone has delayed its opening day due to a lack of snow. The Wānaka skifield, operated by RealNZ, was due to open this Saturday, 23 June.
A Queenstown-based social enterprise has received international attention this month for its work bringing mental health education to remote and rural communities.
A challenge to swim every lake in the South Island, no matter how cold the water and how hard they are to reach, has brought together a Queenstown swimming club.
Dozens of migrant workers are being exploited by Queenstown employers who are not meeting the minimum conditions required by their visas, the Queenstown Citizens Advice Bureau says.
Queenstown Trials has unveiled its plans to grow and enhance its network of green corridors across the Whakatipu over the next 10 years.
Queenstown tech firm First Table has announced a "significant investment" from Invest South, bringing its total recent capital raise to $3.5m.
Queenstown Lakes 2023 ski season is underway but it's very patchy up there.
Two weeks of night works on Gorge Road are being undertaken to complete the installation of three power ducts.
Queenstown Lakes residents are being asked to suggest places which are suitable or unsuitable for residential and business urban development across the district.
Trampers are being urged to consider travelling in small groups in challenging alpine terrain in the wake of a solo tramper's death.
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