In this week: - Ram raid charges - Snow season wrap - Snow youngsters
March is Slow Fashion Month and Wastebusters are shining a light on promoting slow fashion as the norm and reducing the environmental and social impacts of textile waste.
It will likely be several months before Speight's Ale House opens again after Sunday morning's blaze.
Veteran Queenstown cross country and telemark ski instructor Jef Desbecker says it’s “super important and absolutely crucial” for the region that the necessary funds are raised to build a base building at Snow Farm.
Another $50,000 will be injected into initiatives that improve mental wellbeing, social connection and resilience in communities across the Southern Lakes region this autumn.
Alpine ski racing superstar Alice Robinson has wrapped up her Northern Hemisphere competition season with a seventh-place finish at the Giant Slalom World Cup finals held in Andorra.
A Queenstown pub in an historic downtown building has been extensively damaged by a fire that broke out this morning.
Auckland Airport has unveiled a $3.9 billion redevelopment project, which will see it combine its domestic and international terminals prompting warnings that it will force up airfares.
One of Queenstown’s most loved artists, Da’Vella Gore, will be farewelled this Saturday (March 18) at a service at her beloved Stoneridge Estate Chapel overlooking Lake Hayes, which all began out of her passion for old church buildings.
Work to upgrade the electricity network at the Cromwell end of Kawarau Gorge means there will be temporary road closures tomorrow, Thursday, 16 March.
The stunning Glendhu Station will be the new home for Ripe Wine & Food Festival.
With 36 holes, 312 golfers, and thousands watching, there was a lot to cover at the New Zealand Open.
With COVID-19 travel restrictions largely a thing of the past for Australian and New Zealand tourists, Pacific destinations are enjoying the return of visitors – albeit at a slower pace than in other parts of the world.
Frankton's busy BP roundabout will close three nights next week between 10pm and 6am.
RealNZ Chair Martin Dippie confirmed the board has today accepted the resignation of CEO Stephen England-Hall.
Well-known Queenstowner Melissa White has thrown her hat back in the ring for the vacant Arrowtown-Kawarau Ward seat.
Wānaka welcomed at least 44,000 people to the 86th Wānaka A&P Show over the weekend.
Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has won the YETI Natural Selection Revelstoke
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