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.
Get your skates on! Arrowtown has a free community ice rink once again.
The Queenstown Citizen Advice Bureau (CAB) is helping dozens of migrant workers who are struggling to pay rent and basic living costs because they are not getting the work hours they have been promised.
Fiords in temperate regions may account for 11% of the global marine organic carbon burial, writes academics Rebecca J McLeod and William Austin for The Conversation
Queenstown Lakes property market continues to slowly track in the opposite direction to much of New Zealand.
The last kilometre of the vertical race at the World Mountain Running Championship in Innsbruck, Austria, is something that Queenstown runner Sarah Douglas will forever cherish.
Public consultation has closed on two major plans which could change the face of housing in Queenstown.
More than 30 cabins owned by the Queenstown Lakes District Council are sitting empty, despite the region facing a rental housing crisis.
In this Podcast, host Brent Harbour talks to Glen Thurston, from Turn The Corner, about mental health in the construction industry, and to Hayley Furze, who worked four jobs to finally build and own her own home in Wanaka.
There'll be no Winter Fest this year but Queenstown can still expect a spectacular fireworks display.
Climate activists want Queenstown Airport passengers to be charged a $100 local tax per flight, which they say could raise hundreds of millions of dollars a year for ratepayers.
A Queenstown tourism business has been ordered to pay $48,000 after ghosting an employee during the pandemic.
By withdrawing its support for the Medium Density Residential Standards (MDRS) it helped introduce in the first place, the National Party has essentially only made a soft policy even softer - writes Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland
A second valuable Life Education Trust Heartland mobile classroom has finally been purchased specifically for the Queenstown Lakes-Central Otago area, enabling the trust to reach an extra 5000 students a year.
Queenstown Police want to speak to this man about an assault in Ballarat Street this morning.
Heavy rain, snow and strong winds are expected for Queenstown's headwaters and mountains over the coming 48 hours.
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