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Thirty years ago today, Air New Zealand launched daily direct flights between Auckland and Queenstown.

A Queenstown hospitality frontline icon in his heyday, Englishman Roger Goddard learned the trade from the best, doing the hard graft, 16-hours, seven days a week, as a first class, fine dining waiter on cruise ships around the world.

Hikes in outdoor dining fees are hitting already struggling hospitality businesses hard according to their Association.

An unwitting Queenstown dad sparked a Police alert last Thursday after members of the public saw a man with a rifle lying in the grass near Queenstown Airport.

There’s a new market in town and its focus is on supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs. Queenstown Youth Market runs around once a month and is organised by MyFundAction Youth Development Centre (MYDC).

Golf equipment manufacturer, Callaway Golf, has signed on as a new sponsor for The New Zealand Open, held in Arrowtown.

Warmer weather welcomes many into the garden. However, it’s also the time when gardeners can be at risk of catching Legionnaires’ disease from bags or bulk loads of potting mix and compost.

A Queenstown hospitality business owner says the council is hiking the fees he pays to have a few tables outside by almost 1600 percent, and it "doesn't make much sense".

One of the world’s most anticipated earthquakes is the next major surface rupture of the Alpine Fault in the South Island of New Zealand.

Alpine ski Racing superstar Alice Robinson was crowned the 2024 Snow Sports NZ Overall Athlete at the organisation's annual awards.

Queenstown Writers Festival are offering keen readers the chance to own a bundle of 19 books by some of New Zealand's best authors.

The rafters of the Rippon Hall were ringing with rapturous applause on Sunday night as this year’s At the World’s Festival took its final bow to a standing ovation from a sell-out audience.

A proposed 80km walking and cycling loop-track along the shorelines of Lakes Wānaka and Hāwea has the potential to become an iconic New Zealand track, believes the Upper Clutha Tracks Trust (UCTT).

Fast-Track plans for another 2800 homes along Queenstown's Southern Corridor are likely to cause a few headaches for transport planners.

Two people were rescued overnight after not returning from a kayaking trip in Queenstown.

Expect to see road crews and traffic managers out and about repairing and re-sealing highways and keeping road users safe around Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago from now onwards, says NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA).

Cromwell Volunteer Fire Brigade celebrates its 150th anniversary this weekend.

The Kingston Community Association is fundraising to support the construction of a pump track in the lakeside town - with a $13k prize raffle.

The Wao Summit returns to Queenstown and Wānaka this month with masterclasses, kōrero, tours and a community festival, from 29 October - 2 November.

A teenage mountain biker was airlifted from the Wynyard Jump Park at Fernhill in a serious condition on Monday, in one of a number of call outs for the Otago Rescue Helicopter.