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Queenstown Airport will pay at $18.8 million dividend to its shareholders after a strong financial year.

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Posted 19 August, 2025

Amisfield was among six restaurants that scored the highest at the Good Food Awards and also took the coveted restaurant of the year title.

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Posted 19 August, 2025

Award-winning comedian Tom Sainsbury is coming to town – twice! This Friday he’ll be tackling Kinross with his show, Can’t Dim This Shine, before performing Lessons Not Learnt in October in Arrowtown.

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Posted 19 August, 2025

The second meeting of a joint committee negotiating a regional deal for Central Otago and Queenstown Lakes with central government was abruptly adjourned on Monday (August 18) amid debate over conducting much of the discussion behind closed doors.

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Posted 19 August, 2025

A paid parking trial planned for Punakaiki Pancake Rocks and Franz Josef Glacier is being closely watched in Wānaka, with the local tourism boss noting it should be considered in the wider context of other charges facing visitors.

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Posted 19 August, 2025

The age for New Zealand's working holiday visas should be raised to 50 to help hike international visitor numbers, a tourism operator says.

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Posted 19 August, 2025

How would you like to use and enjoy Widgeon Park in the future? That’s the question on the colourful Queenstown Lakes District Council flyer that dropped into my actual letter box this week.

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Posted 19 August, 2025

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is asking the community to share their thoughts on a draft Development Plan for Arrowtown Riverside Reserves, a network of public reserves that line the Haehaenui Arrow River.

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Posted 18 August, 2025

Queenstown Lakes Community Action leaders are frustrated testing has been scaled back around the controversial Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant.

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Posted 15 August, 2025

A palatial 1920s building near Clyde is on the brink of a lavish new chapter, painstakingly restored from years of mould, rodents and neglect.

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Posted 15 August, 2025

Tasman police are appealing for information to identify victims of a Wānaka couple’s elaborate fraud scheme, which used false cancer claims to swindle more than $1M and fund a “lavish lifestyle” until their arrest yesterday (Thursday August 14).

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Posted 14 August, 2025

While much of Queenstown’s history focuses on stories of the men of the time, author Lauren Roche is focusing one of the most influential women of the time – Julia Eichardt.

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Posted 14 August, 2025

Queenstown Airport is celebrating its 90th birthday, making it one of New Zealand’s oldest commercial airports still operating on its original site.

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Posted 14 August, 2025

An Australian tourist leaves the country today with an expensive dent in his wallet after he was clocked at 168kmh in his rental vehicle, three passengers on board, last week.

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Posted 14 August, 2025

Kiwisaver provider Simplicity is to spend hundreds of million dollars on building up to 600 long-term rental houses in Queenstown.

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Posted 13 August, 2025

Two new seasonal visas announced by the government have been welcomed by local operators.

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Posted 13 August, 2025

Queenstown’s queen of cat care and one of the resort’s most renowned art dealers, Invercargill-born Julia Milley has had strong ties with this area since she was four.

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Posted 13 August, 2025

A major new office, retail and parking complex in Five Mile is among a host of new planning applications in the works.

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Posted 13 August, 2025

Kiwis and foreign buyers are looking at buying the iconic Cardrona Hotel.

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Posted 13 August, 2025

Winter Pride 2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest yet, with ticket sales already well ahead of last year and thousands of visitors expected to join Queenstown’s 10-day rainbow celebration.

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