In November 2021, Christopher Luxon took over a party in tatters. He was picked by 32 caucus colleagues in desperation, as much as hope. Today, he is Prime Minister-elect.
National MP Joseph Mooney has easily won the Southland constituency, which includes Queenstown. Mooney extended his majority with a landslide victory, taking 19,981 of the 33,046 votes, a whopping 60%.
National will lead the next government and its party's leader Christopher Luxon has thanked New Zealand for splashing blue across the country.
Queenstown skifield operator NZSki has been ordered to pay almost $600,000 over the death of Anita Graf at Coronet Peak.
A person has died after their vehicle rolled on Bannockburn Road, Nevis, Central Otago.
Power ha been restored to 132 premises in Queenstown CBD, including the Queenstown App / Lakes Weekly Bulletin offices, after an outage this morning.
Water-lovers and river roamers are being encouraged to share their thoughts on how the safety of the district’s waterways is managed, to help inform the development of a new draft Navigation Safety Bylaw 2024.
Wao's Monique Kelly talks about this year's festival, which features six days of workshops, kōrero, films, tours and community events later this month, all about creating tangible, long-term social and environmental change.
A South Island tourism operator is set to secure a Queenstown cruise boat enterprise from a competitor that received nearly $7 million dollars of government support during the pandemic.
Queenstown Airport chief executive Glen Sowry says there’s no need for a fourth international airport in the South Island.
A Queenstown ski shop owner says residents are bewildered as to how a ski boot dryer led to the evacuation of the airport on Friday.
Skyline Gondola believes debris from its worksite contributed to flooding on Reavers Lane last month, Queenstown Lakes District Council says.
Queenstown Airport's boss Glen Sowry says today's bomb scare was sparked by a routine bag check.
Detailed investigations by Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand into the source of the current cryptosporidium outbreak in Queenstown have concluded the most likely source is "human faecal contamination of the water supply".
Queenstown Airport has now reopened after a bomb scare, as the New Zealand Defence Force Explosive Ordnance Disposal Squadron deemed the reported items pose no threat.
At the World’s Edge Festival Composer-in-Residence, Victoria Kelly, has been awarded one of Aotearoa’s most prestigious music awards, the SOUNZ Contemporary Award /Te Tohu Auaha.
Queenstown Lakes District Council has confirmed the boil water notice for its Kelvin Heights water distribution zone – also including Frankton, Hanley’s Farm, Quail Rise and Tucker Beach Rd – has been lifted with immediate effect.
Charges against a tourism company over a resource consent breach to moorings at Milford Sound have been dismissed, with the company paying court costs and $100,000 toward an environmental project.
Queenstown's famous 4WD tour firm Nomad Safaris has taken the plunge and invested in a fully-electric Yutong 25-seater bus, a first for New Zealand's adventure tourism off-road sector.
Thousands of residents and workers on the Kelvin Heights water supply could be able to drink water straight from the tap by Thursday morning.
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