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

As he was launched off a two-metre ramp and into Vaire-sur-Marne white water course, New Zealand's Finn Butcher, a first-time Olympian, in a first-time Olympic sport known as a demolition derby on water, was on a collision course with history.

Calling all entrepreneurs with a plan! Startup Queenstown Lakes is running a new 10-week Startup Booster Programme to help founders take the next step towards launching their business.

Auckland-based poet, author and playwright, Dominic Hoey, will perform an intimate night of poetry and storytelling at Sherwood this Friday. Local poets Bethany Rogers and Julian Noel will also join him to perform some poems at the start of the evening.

Queenstown Lakes' red light zones - which contain no active brothels - have been expanded. The new Brothel Bylaw 2024 was approved by councillors on Thursday, after a hearings panel sorted through polarised, fiery written and in-person submissions.

Trail-blazing plans to force property developers to pay towards affordable housing have been scrapped.

Queenstowners can expect significant overnight disruption as the Frankton BP Roundabout project moves to its next stage.

Queenstown Airport is donating $75,000 to local food rescue charity KiwiHarvest.

A plan to diversify Queenstown Lakes economy away from just tourism and construction has been given the greenlight.

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. The wider public are now being called on to share their thoughts

With chilly late night rescues, lucky escapes and a Night n’ Day runner nabbed this past week, Police are also urging people to dob in those dealing in and using illicit drugs.

Our bones are constantly remodelling, old bone breaking down (resorption) and new bone being made (formation).

A freezing evening didn’t deter nearly a hundred locals from gathering at Rhyme x Reason Brewery in Wānaka on Wednesday night (30 July) to hear Wao Aotearoa director Monique Kelly launch this year’s summit.

First Thursdays Quarterly is a free and fun event for art lovers. Join in the open-late across six exhibition spaces all located around Earl Street and Marine Parade in Queenstown.

The snow has fallen at the perfect time for the NZ Skiing Masters Championships. Competitors head to Coronet Peak this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 3-4 August, for the first event of the calendar.

Queenstown Airport has increased its parking charges for the first time since 2019 - but it won't affect short stayers.

A fascination with New Zealand eventually led to long-time Queenstown Japanese hiking guide ‘Kuzzy’ Kogure landing a job at Tokyo’s NZ Embassy, moving to Queenstown, and becoming a TV icon in his homeland.

Mother Nature has delivered a fresh blanket of snow to Coronet Peak, The Remarkables, Cardrona Alpine Resort and Treble Cone overnight. The mountains have welcomed between 15-50cm of snow – with more incoming.

Queenstown Lakes District Council's plans for force property developers to pay towards affordable housing look to be dead in the water.

Queenstown-based charitable trust Headlight has two of its team and one of its past facilitators as finalists in this year’s Inspirational Women Awards NZ.