Content

Queenstown transport group The Lightfoot Initiative is encouraging parents to write directly to Education Minister Erica Stanford over the touted removal of school buses.

Police investigating a Queenstown incident which left a man with serious injuries are seeking help from the public.

Police are continuing enquiries into an incident which left a man with serious injuries in Queenstown.

A Queenstown hotelier made a string of false claims, after the business's luxury "heli-crayfish experience" caught the attention of fisheries officers, documents show.

A 30-year-old man faces a range of charges after Police seized a sawn-off shotgun, cocaine and shotgun shells from a vehicle in Queenstown.

Salmonella Dub are coming to Queenstown to celebrate their 33.33rd birthday and the release of their digitally re-mastered full back catalogue.

Twenty-five years ago, Aaron Fleming was told he’d never physically exert himself again. This Sunday, he’ll stand on the start line of the men’s IRONMAN World Championship in Nice, France.

Mental Health by Katherine Froggatt

An estimated $44,000 of public money to fly Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to the top of a Queenstown mountain is a publicity stunt "gone badly wrong", Labour leader Chris Hipkins says.

A late burst of spring snow has allowed Snow Farm NZ to extend its winter season by two weeks into the school holidays.

Wakatipu Land Search and Rescue volunteers successfully trialled a RECCO detector device from a helicopter over the lower rocky outcrops of The Remarkables earlier this week, offering new hope to those needing rescued in the backcountry locally.

Peter Norris is what you’d call ‘old school Queenstown’, born just before World War II broke out in 1939, in a town of just over 1500 people, the solo local cop never far behind him and his mates and their boyhood antics.

Residents across the Queenstown Lakes District can now cast their all-important votes in the 2025 local elections.

The Contact Alexandra Blossom Festival is promising one of its liveliest years yet, with a diverse entertainment programme that brings together Kiwi icons, international performers and family-friendly fun.

If you’ve ever heard someone tell you “it can’t be done you’re dreaming”, you know you have found a stick-in-the-mud.

Snow Machine festival is underway, bringing 7000 people to town for skiing, music and events. One big party. DJ Hot Dub Time Machine returns to Queenstown and is sure to be one of the highlights, playing hits across the decades - check out Jess Allen's interview with the man himself, Tom Lowndes.

Queenstown Medical Centre's brand-new clinic is now open.

I want to acknowledge the effort Wakatipu Community Trust put into its application to open a new charter school in Queenstown. The Board recognises the strength of the Trust’s proposal and the vision it outlined for students and their communities. The Board was impressed by the level of community passion and support for this proposal. So why didn’t it get across the line?

Over the past seven months our team, our partners, and hundreds of Queenstown families poured themselves into the Atlas High School application. The goal was to prove that a community-owned, not-for-profit, fees-free model could give our young people real choice in a one-school town that is loudly asking for it. I’m proud of the work we did, and even prouder of the community that stood up for it.