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Police and LandSAR volunteers continue to scour the rugged hill country around Skippers Saddle and Mount Dewar for the second day today (24 September) in the hope of finding clues as to the whereabouts of a missing woman last seen at Skippers Saddle, near Coronet Peak, on Friday, 18 September.

As we move into spring, the soil starts awakening from its slumber and we get excited for the coming growing season.

A multi-award-winning Kiwi architect in New Zealand and Fiji for 56 years, Murray Cockburn’s survived sharemarket crashes and coups, his unique rustic schist, timber style now iconic in Queenstown.

Some volunteer firefighters are concerned that they can’t get through Queenstown’s notorious traffic congestion to respond to callouts, and while the local FENZ assistant district commander says it hasn’t affected response times yet, it potentially could.

Te Atamira, Welcoming Communities and local iwi Kāi Tahu have teamed up to bring Te Waharoa ki Whakatipu | Gateway to the Whakatipu to our community.

The Wakatipu Anglers Club is based in Queenstown and meets on a regular basis.

Ben Elms will be conducting a hands-on apple grafting demonstration on Saturday, 19 September.

Her cousin is an internationally renowned Kiwi movie icon, and she’s been private nurse to wealthy British aristocracy, but you wouldn’t catch retired Queenstown nurse Lindsay Jackson skiting about all this.

While there was widespread alarm both on the ground and on board as significant flames leapt from the engine of a Qantas jet upon take-off from Queenstown last Saturday (5 September), Qantas assures its pilots had everything under control.

At the World’s Edge Festival kicked will return on 3 October. It delivers an extensive programme of chamber music, spanning across Queenstown, Bannockburn, Wānaka and Cromwell.

Ten people were taken to Lakes District Hospital by St John Ambulance crews, at least one with moderate injuries, after what is believed to have been a head-on collision between two vehicles near the summit on Crown Range Road at around 3.30pm yesterday (9 September).

It takes a bit to faze Mary May. The hardy 89-year-old, once a Scurr, was raised deep in the Cardrona Valley, no electricity until after she’d left home to work in Wānaka in 1956.

At 76, Queenstown’s Queen of Waka Ama Francie Piacun has brought home a prestigious bronze crown, part of the 75-Plus age-group Kiwi team to win bronze at the World Waka Ama Sprints Championships in Singapore late last month.

Police are urging caution on the Frankton to Kingston highway through the Devil’s Staircase with latest NZTA statistics still showing concerning crash numbers along that route before what’s predicted to be a bumper tourist season even gets underway.

Remarkable Theatre’s annual main show will open this Friday, reflecting on “the good old days,” questioning who they were actually good for. Home, I’m Darling will run until Saturday, 19 September and is the biggest show of the year for the group.

Mental Health by Katherine Froggatt

Everything changed for Cam and his partner Merryn in February this year, when Cam (32) had an accident in the Cardrona Valley while riding his motorbike to work in Queenstown.

Police are extremely concerned to have netted two alleged drink drivers recording over 1000mcg, one over 1300mcg, when breath tested around Queenstown this past week, another two allegedly blowing over 800mcg in Central Otago.

Police have arrested two people and are appealing for witnesses following a serious assault in Queenstown around 1.10am near the Crew Room Bar entrance on Ballarat Street on last Tuesday, 25 August.

Bring Queenstown to the table. 1,000s of metres up, not 1,000s of km away.