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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.

A Queenstown landlord who crammed tenants into partitioned rooms, garages, caravans and a bus has been ordered to pay $81,050 on behalf of 117 tenants.

This September we are celebrating Welcoming Week. In its second year in our district, Welcoming Week offers us a powerful reminder: communities thrive when everyone feels they belong.

A blueprint for delivering this district’s future Three Waters services is now awaiting consideration and acceptance from central government.

New Zealand's engineered post-Covid recession has pushed our wage growth to near the bottom of the world in recent years.

A video showing a group of backcountry skiers being caught in an avalanche in the Treble Cone backcountry yesterday has prompted a serious warning for backcountry enthusiasts.

Queenstown-based tourism giant RealNZ has been listed as a finalist in the 2025 New Zealand Tourism Awards.

The Whakatipu Reforestation Trust has been operating since 2013, working to grow and plant native trees and shrubs throughout the Whakatipu Basin. With 129,000 plants in the ground to date, the impact is starting to add up.

Plans for Atlas High School have been rejected by the government’s Charter School Authorisation Board.

Cardrona Valley Road has re-opened following a serious crash yesterday afternoon. One person was critically injured, two people sustained serious injuries and a further two sustained moderate injuries.

Passengers took nearly two million trips on Queenstown buses over 12 months.

Legendary Queenstown award-winning architect Michael Wyatt doesn’t just love drawing. He’s pretty keen on cars, now the proud owner of seven classy classics, including a 1968 4.9-litre V8 Maserati - his “babies”.