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Debbie Swain-Rewi’s life may have been an emotional rollercoaster that could’ve tipped many over the edge. Instead, it built resilience and instilled immense gratitude and compassion in a heart that’s still constantly pouring out to others.

The 10-day Queenstown Bike Festival will kick off this Friday, hosting more than 30 events around Queenstown to suit all riding levels. The festival is a fundraiser for Queenstown Mountain Bike Club (QMTBC) and its organisers want it to enable more people to become more involved in mountain biking in whichever way suits them, from riding and supporting, to volunteering or being a festival sponsor.

Council contractors and officers are responding urgently to an overflow of partially treated wastewater from one of the poo ponds at Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant.

With sunny days forecast and plenty of customers ready and willing to book, tourism businesses say summer is off to a cracking start.

Town and country came together for the 108th time at the Lake Hayes A&P Show on Saturday.

Off-road motorbikes and four-wheel drive vehicles are damaging fragile terrain and threatening native bird life around historic Macetown, Skippers township and the Chinamans Flat.

Queenstown Lakes / Central Otago housing market reached an unprecedented high in December, with the highest average asking price for any region of $1,590,855.

Australian Stock Exchange-listed company Santana Minerals is telling its investors, swathes of high-grade gold could rest beneath the remote farmland between the Bendigo and Dunstan Ranges in Central Otago.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) will close Mount Iron Reserve between noon-6am for the next three days due to extreme risk of wildfire.

2023 was New Zealand's second hottest year on record and among the cloudiest, NIWA has announced today.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has implemented water restrictions in several locations around the district, and is asking the community to conserve water as much as possible.

Waning immunity and complacency have contributed to the fifth wave of Covid-19 in Aotearoa, an epidemiologist is warning.

Organisers of grassroots environmental projects across Central Otago can apply for funding from a massive $900,000 pot this year.

Results from testing of water quality at Sunshine Bay in Queenstown have come back negative regarding contamination, after a wastewater overflow at the bottom of Arawata Terrace was reported to Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) on Monday 1 January 2024.

Moves are afoot to promote Arthurs Point as a food and entertainment destination, with plans for a Farmers’ Market selling local produce and businesses banding together to form an association.

She grew up a farm girl near Te Anau and after multi-tasking through early motherhood and a full-on corporate and civic career she became Queenstown Lakes’ first female mayor at 43.

Alice Robinson claimed an eighth-place finish at the Kranjska Gora FIS Giant Slalom World Cup in Slovenia, as she starts her 2024 race season.

Queenstown's dreadlocked street piano player AJ Hickling has died after a short battle with cancer.

Police are urging people to be careful in the outdoors after three swimmers were rescued from the Kawarau River in Queenstown this afternoon.