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It’s a changing of the guard at the iconic Ivy Box art gallery on Queenstown’s lakefront.

In a major coup, Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow has secured one of the world’s most iconic WWII fighter-bomber aircraft for its Easter 2024 airshow.

Sometimes it just seems too hard to bike to work, but mud guards, pannier bags and wet weather gear clinched the deal for me to commit to biking, over driving or busing. Here are 7 reasons to love commuting by bike:

A strong field of more than 400 runners from 16 different countries took on the various gut-busting runs at the Shotover Moonlight, held on Queenstown’s Ben Lomond Station over weekend.

Wakatipu Community Foundation has a new chair as it targets the ambitious goal of becoming a billion dollar fund.

Queenstown ratepayers will pick up the bill for another $18 million budget blow out on the downtown bypass. Councillors yesterday approved the overspend, which brings the total cost of the 'shovel-ready' project to $128m, rather than opting to leave the road partially finished.

Kiwi numbers are increasing in a remote part of Fiordland for the first time in the history of their conservation, after recent aerial predator control operations.

A life of governance and community service started at 16 years old for sixth generation West Coaster Joanne Conroy – a woman who gets the job done.

Council’s planned new offices for 600 staff could be built with no debt, no rent, and leave money in the bank for cultural and community facilities. But not as proposed by QLDC’s Project Manawa – a project supposed to create our “community heart” in downtown Queenstown, through a complicated and costly land swap process and joint venture that would cost ratepayers forever rent and substantial debt.

The government is looking into allowing more overseas investment for build-to-rent housing, a leaked draft Cabinet paper shows.

Remarkable Theatre annual garden show will run this weekend, taking over Queenstown Gardens

Queenstown Lakes District councillors are being asked to approve funding for a future kerbside organics collection service.

Wānaka skier Adam Hall has finished in third place at the FIS Para Alpine Slalom World Cup race held in Sapporo, Japan.

La primera columna oficial para Nuestra Voz la dediqué a la crisis por falta de viviendas en Queenstown a mitad del año 2023, en pleno invierno.

Turning 100 this month, Yorkshire-raised Margaret Reid has lived in Queenstown for almost 70 years after 10 years of post-war OE landed the gutsy little Brit here, where she fell in love while housemaiding at Eichardt’s Hotel.

The Lightfoot Initiatives' Amanda Robinson discusses the Aotearoa Bike Challenge, her own experience with cycling, and the potential that lies in pedal-powered commuting for a greener tomorrow.

If you want to know the benefits of “Buddying” ask Big Buddy Siobhan Adcock and her Buddy George Robbie.

Queenstown Lakes councillors will be asked to consider delaying the ten-year financial plan, due to the blowback from Three Waters cancellation.

Queenstown Lakes councillors are being asked to approve a further budget increase of $17.65 million for stage one of the Town Centre Arterial Road project. This takes the overall budget to $128.02m, up from the original $88m.

Proponents of Arrowtown’s controversial Olive Leaf Centre, next to St Patrick’s Catholic Church, are open to listening to the community about what they would like to see on the land, Centre Trust chair Colin Bellett says.