The search is on for one local rangatahi (young person) to join a national mentoring programme designed to develop the leadership capability of young Māori across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Queenstown Bike Fest 2024 "has been a blast" so far, says organiser Emmerson Wilken. The 10-day festival got underway on Friday with a Lake Jump at Steamer Wharf, with bikers pulling backflips and other tricks into Lake Wakatipu from a ramp, in front of a raucous crowd.
Kiwi icons the Topp Twins have been confirmed as the lead entertainment act for this year’s anticipated Wānaka A&P Show.
Hundreds of thousands of litres of partially treated human effluent spilled into a Queenstown swamp before it was stopped.
They may be relatively remote from the main urban areas but that hasn’t stopped the Glenorchy community from leading the charge in the southern region with its hugely successful door-to-door community composting programme.
South Island firearms owners, especially those from the Southern and Canterbury Police districts, are leading the way in the new Firearm Registry.
Freshwater anglers are being asked to keep an eye out for pest species after a grass carp was caught in an Otago lake. It is believed the carp was released into contained ponds near Queenstown, but may have escaped during spring floods and swum down river into Lake Dunstan, said Otago Fish and Game.
Sunday morning's torrential rain will have been welcomed by the lower South Island's rural firefighters. Last week, the fire risk was 'extreme' across the regions after weeks of dry hot summer days combined with windy conditions - turning the wooded hills and scrub into a tinderbox.
Council contractors and officers are responding urgently to an overflow of partially treated wastewater from one of the poo ponds at Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant.
With sunny days forecast and plenty of customers ready and willing to book, tourism businesses say summer is off to a cracking start.
Town and country came together for the 108th time at the Lake Hayes A&P Show on Saturday.
Off-road motorbikes and four-wheel drive vehicles are damaging fragile terrain and threatening native bird life around historic Macetown, Skippers township and the Chinamans Flat.
Queenstown Lakes / Central Otago housing market reached an unprecedented high in December, with the highest average asking price for any region of $1,590,855.
Australian Stock Exchange-listed company Santana Minerals is telling its investors, swathes of high-grade gold could rest beneath the remote farmland between the Bendigo and Dunstan Ranges in Central Otago.
Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) will close Mount Iron Reserve between noon-6am for the next three days due to extreme risk of wildfire.
2023 was New Zealand's second hottest year on record and among the cloudiest, NIWA has announced today.
Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has implemented water restrictions in several locations around the district, and is asking the community to conserve water as much as possible.
Waning immunity and complacency have contributed to the fifth wave of Covid-19 in Aotearoa, an epidemiologist is warning.
Organisers of grassroots environmental projects across Central Otago can apply for funding from a massive $900,000 pot this year.
Queenstown's dreadlocked street piano player AJ Hickling has died after a short battle with cancer.
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