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When MC Katie Bradford asked candidates at the Chambers’ Mayoral debate last week “Would you consider a moratorium on future development until our infrastructure issues are sorted?” there was an audible ripple of support just for the fact that she asked the question.

Love Queenstown and Love Wānaka Community Funds are distributing a combined $85k to a dozen local organisations working to protect and regenerate the natural environment.

Remarkable Theatre’s latest production is Kiwi playwright Roger Hall’s Take a Chance on Me. The funny, warm and relatable comedy will take over Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall next week and follows a lively group of characters as they navigate the ups and downs of love, loneliness and starting over later in life.

A new Wānaka playground and reserve remains closed off to public access despite having been completed in June.

Wealthy foreigners on a so-called "golden visa" will be allowed to buy a luxury home in New Zealand once more, with the coalition government confirming a new exemption to the foreign buyers' ban.

Plans for a Queenstown funicular, new ski field, convention centre and housing development will not be Fast-Tracked.

Award-winning writers, big personalities and a slew of talented southerners are all in the mix for next month's Queenstown Writers Festival.

Resource consent has been approved for the Wānaka Health Precinct joint venture between Roa and Kā Rūnaka (represented by Puketeraki Ltd and Ōtākou Ltd).

Much-loved Queenstown tourism business Nomad Safaris has new owners.

This Friday, 29 August, is Daffodil Day - the Cancer Society’s most iconic fundraising day of the year. For Queenstown and the surrounds, our local Cancer Society branch have been working on events to get the community involved and spread information about cancer.

She’s been trailblazing for women since bravely setting off on her OE from Britain, riding solo around part of Australia on her 125cc Suzuki motorbike.

They may not speak the same lingo, but dogs totally get the story. The language of snuggles, hugs and love is universal and working its wonders in encouraging local kids to read and warming the hearts of our elderly.

Two weeks after dropping the stacked first line up, Rhythm and Alps has announced Synthony returns to headline the festival's 15th anniversary.

In anticipation of a cycle trail along the Clutha River linking Wānaka and Cromwell, the Upper Clutha Tracks Trust (UCTT) is preparing a ‘gateway’ trail to Wānaka.

If you want to know the benefits of ‘Buddying’ ask Big Buddy Beth Lyons and her Buddy Norah O’Connell.

It’s 2030. Queenstown Lakes has just introduced PayWave terminals on its park benches. ‘Just $10 to sit for 30mins and enjoy Queenstown’s spectacular views!’ Listening to the chatter surrounding the Regional Deal, this bleak user-pays vision of the future might not be too far removed from reality.

Organisers of the 102nd annual Arrowtown Horticultural Society’s Spring Flower Show are promising a “visual symphony of spring flowers” over two days next month with plants and flower stalls, white elephant stall, home baking, floral demonstrations, a free children’s workshop and surprise entertainment.

A pallet loaded with 1,248 cans of tomatoes was among $3000 worth of groceries donated to KiwiHarvest by Queenstown's PAK’nSAVE recently.

With peak ski season partying downtown and Snow Machine Festival just a few weeks away, Police are warning those dabbling in party drugs like MDMA are “effectively putting their health in the hands of a drug dealer”.

Award-winning documentary filmmaker Annie Goldson will be in town on Friday for a screening and Q&A of Red Mole: A Romance. The film explores the origins, performances, personalities and fate of the Kiwi group Red Mole, who burst onto the scene in the early 1970s.