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Award-winning documentary filmmaker Annie Goldson will be in town on Friday for a screening and Q&A of Red Mole: A Romance. The film explores the origins, performances, personalities and fate of the Kiwi group Red Mole, who burst onto the scene in the early 1970s.

As a parting gift to Queenstown, Cr Esther Whitehead has recorded 23 individual podcasts with the mayoral candidates and would-be councillors. Inside Voices goes live on YouTube today.

Elite skiers and snowboarders took on The Remarks across two Freeride World Tour Qualifier events on the weekend.

Police are keen to hear from anyone with information, or who saw anything suspicious on Ryan Loop Road, Jack’s Point, overnight last Tuesday after two vehicles were broken into and damaged.

Gibbston’s brand-new music festival The Valley has unveiled a stellar line-up for January 2026.

Elected members from the three Otago councils forming a joint committee to negotiate a regional deal with central government will now be able to access reports and sit in on public-excluded sessions, following clarification at a fractious meeting this week.

Construction of a major new Queenstown trail could begin as soon as this summer, if funds can be raised.

Pete Yarrell may have interviewed Louis Armstrong for TV, hit Sir Cliff Richard in the face with a tennis ball and almost toppled a former Prime Minister off his political perch, even received a QSM. But you won’t find this 81-year-old from Lake Hayes boasting about any of that.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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.