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Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has been working with the community to develop a three-year Welcoming Plan for the district to ensure that all newcomers are able to thrive.

We are being told the health system is in crisis, “on the brink of failure” – spending beyond its budget, waiting times getting longer, suffering from widespread staff shortages.

QLDC could so easily fix the risk in its draft Long Term Plan that it loses supermajority shareholder control of Queenstown Airport without any community consultation. But instead of addressing this risk, Council’s “correction/clarification” of my Lakes Weekly Bulletin (LWB) article sought to obfuscate, misinform and divert attention from the serious issues raised. Issues about which Council’s LWB response was silent.

No fancy hospitality school launched longtime Queenstown restaurateur Tony Robertson’s 45-year career.

An independent panel has approved resource consent, subject to conditions, to subdivide land for a housing development at Frankton-Ladies Mile Highway in Queenstown.

“Game-changing”, “awesome” and “transformational” are just some of the things that past participants have said about how Wastebusters’ new programme changes the way they shop for and plan their weekly meals. Welcome to Every Bite.

Council staff are working through more than 340 submissions on McDonald’s application to open a restaurant and drive-through on the outskirts of Wānaka.

Queenstown Lakes mayor Glyn Lewers says the council needs more than just new debt tools to pay its whopping $1.5 BILLION water bill.

The Wild 2024 has become the latest Queenstown Lakes event to pull pin as economic pressures continue to bite.

New Zealand’s only cross-country ski area Snow Farm is celebrating its busiest season on record as it gears up to open its new $750,000 base building this month.

What’s the one thing we can all plant that will have the most benefit to our food eating lives for years and years to come? Well, from the title you can deduct my opinion very quickly.

People are jumping on the buses in Queenstown in record numbers with a 51% increase year-on-year. Some 1,897,200 trips were taken on Orbus Queenstown from July 2023 to June 2024, exceeding all previous financial years.

Queridos amigos y seguidores de esta columna, tras más de un año entregando este servicio a la comunidad hispanoparlante de Queenstown, ha llegado el momento de decir adiós.

It may have been quiet on the usual Queenstown ski season crime and disorder front this past week but Police have been reining in excessive speedsters recently and keeping a check on over-indulgers downtown.

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After more than 50 years peering into grimacing, toothy grins, Queenstown’s longest serving dentist John Molloy has found something new to get his teeth into.

Conservationist and long-term local Sararose Brown has been appointed as the new Operations Manager for the Whakatipu Reforestation Trust (WRT).

The road racing at the Paris Olympic Games may not have brought riches in terms of top-10 placings for Kiwi riders, but it did bring some remarkable scenes in remarkable settings, Cycling New Zealand says.

It is often said around Queenstown but worth saying again: it’s a rare privilege to live somewhere with a pristine natural environment on the doorstep.

Queenstown Lakes District Council has appointed Katherine Harbrow as its new finance boss.