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Queenstown Lakes councillors are being asked to approve a further budget increase of $17.65 million for stage one of the Town Centre Arterial Road project. This takes the overall budget to $128.02m, up from the original $88m.

Proponents of Arrowtown’s controversial Olive Leaf Centre, next to St Patrick’s Catholic Church, are open to listening to the community about what they would like to see on the land, Centre Trust chair Colin Bellett says.

A $68 million electric bus depot is one of the big ticket items that will need funding as Queenstown looks to improve and decarbonise its public transport over the coming decades.

My love affair with biking got off to a rocky start. I grew up in a hilly Dunedin, and it wasn’t until I was about 10 that I learned to ride. I cut my teeth on pedalling myself dizzy up steep roads and wobbling down again. Despite regular crashing, nothing matched the soaring freedom of roaming by bike.

In his fourth attempt to hoist the silverware, Wānaka’s Hamish Elliott clinched a nail-biter in this year’s Elite men's field to claim the 42nd Kathmandu Coast to Coast Multisport World Championship title.

Queenstown Business Chamber of Commerce and Queenstown Airport will again partner in 2024 for a series of events featuring prominent leaders.

With Australian golfing legends Peter Thomson, Kel Nagle, Ian Baker-Finch, Rodger Davis, and more recently Brendan Jones on the list of past New Zealand Open champions, there is clear evidence that the New Zealand Open is a tournament that Australia’s top golfers love to play in and love to win.

Vulnerable ratepayers may be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy due to escalating rates rises to pay for Three Waters upgrades, Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan says.

Electric buses will replace Queenstown's whole Orbus fleet starting in 2028, but Dunedin will get them first. Otago Regional Council, which runs the Orbus services, has confirmed today that the first fleet of e-buses will appear on Dunedin’s streets this month, February 2024.

In an historic moment for the world of extreme sports, the inaugural World MTB Awards (WMA) is set to take place in Queenstown next week.

Popularity has long come with a price for Queenstown as New Zealand’s most popular holiday destination, but long-time businesspeople say the current housing crisis is the worst they’ve ever seen.

Sex toys. Live ammunition. Dead animals. Kitchen knives. Vape pens. You'd be surprised what Queenstowners put in their recycling bins.

The parents of a 12-year-old Queenstown girl who’s been battling cancer for eight months have been overwhelmed by the huge generosity and support pouring their way to help fund urgently needed, expensive international cancer treatment.

It’s been an historic day for New Zealand at the Winter Youth Olympic Games with two Central Otago freeski athletes winning gold and silver in the halfpipe.

Snow Sports NZ athlete Alice Robinson has finished in second place at FIS Giant Slalom World Cup held in Kronplatz, Italy overnight.

Tegan Ariel Chen has been named as the 10-year-old girl who died after falling into Marian Creek in Fiordland.

A cruise ship which ran aground on rocks in Fiordland's Doubtful Sound last week will restart trips on Tuesday afternoon.

This year’s Aotearoa Bike Challenge kicks into gear this Thursday, 1 February, with The Lightfoot Initiative’s calendar of new events and incentives for the Queenstown Lakes community to get cycling - to help cut congestion, reduce emissions, and increase their wellbeing.

Nico Porteous has claimed the silver medal in a hotly contested X Games Men's Ski SuperPipe at the Aspen X Games.

Queenstown Lakes mayor Glyn Lewers says the council faces penning the “toughest Long Term Plan in its history”, as it struggles with the $800 million blowback of Three Waters.