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Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has bought 8.3 hectares of land in Wānaka for $3.36 million.

Innovative artists have been named winners of the LUMA Emerging Artist Programme.

Three high profile recreation reserves could be closed to the public at times this summer, when there is a high risk of wildfire.

Heat alerts are possible as temperatures rise across the country, with Ashburton expected to hit 31C.

Queenstown Lakes District Council continues work to stop the stink from Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant. The council plans to operate an odour mitigation cannon, using a water-based fog to encapsulate smell before it moves off-site.

Queenstown Business Chamber has delivered a pre-Christmas hammer blow to the council's controversial Project Manawa development.

Police are pleading with drivers to take extra care ahead of the holidays in the wake of a tragic weekend on the roads.

The housing market continues to improve, but recovery next year is expected to be gradual and muted.

Southern Police have made some of the largest cocaine seizures in Queenstown during the past few weeks, worth a total street value of an estimated $88,000 as they continue to clamp down on higher recreational drug use throughout Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago.

The man killed in Saturday's head-on Gibbston crash has been named locally as Outrega Anderson.

Kiwi freeskiers Ruby Star Andrews and Luca Harrington have finished in eighth and ninth place respectively at the FIS Freeski Big Air World Cup held Sunday morning NZT in Colorado.

Police have confirmed that one person died in this morning's crash on State Highway 6 / Gibbston.

An official ceremony is being held to acknowledge the reopening of Queenstown Tāhuna Cemetery / Urupā next Thursday on upper Brecon Street. Part of the cemetery’s grounds were closed following a severe weather event in September, which brought a landslip of forestry debris and logs down from Skyline hill.

Cardrona Alpine Resort has announced work will begin on a six-seater high-speed Soho Basin chairlift this summer.

Royalburn Station is opening to the public for the first time this summer to raise funds for charity.

Opinion: James Higham, Professor of Tourism, Griffith University, writing for The Conversation

One of New Zealand’s largest conservation groups has released a ground-breaking biodiversity report today – the first of its kind in New Zealand. Southern Lakes Sanctuary (SLS) is launching an interactive geographic information system (GIS) map – developed by Wildlands Consultants – which provides a comprehensive breakdown of wildlife species that existed in the Queenstown Lakes District, pre-human arrival.

Police ticketed more than 30 drivers during an operation targeting high-risk driving behaviour in Queenstown Lakes yesterday.

It’s summer and our pristine lakes and rivers beckon, inviting that long-awaited cool off plunge, soak, or spot of waterskiing. However, increasingly we’re being warned to think before we sink as levels of pollution from the likes of e-coli and toxic algae can threaten the safety of our popular recreational spots.

It's been almost a decade since Matty Yates and Scott Stevens called time on Queenstown nightclub Tardis and began brainstorming ideas for its Cow Lane premises.