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Welcoming Week - a celebration of diversity and inclusion - begins this Friday, 6 September, and runs until next Sunday, 15 September.

Downtown Queenstown businesses shouldn't be asked to pick up the bill for upgrades that have driven locals away.

How did Roost evolve from a humble garage startup to a multi-award-winning mortgage brokerage? Mark Pullar and Toby Stanley are guests on the Outlet Queenstown podcast this week, talking about the journey behind the company's success, from the early days of launching in 2017 to now a 15-member team, earning accolades like the Queenstown SME of the Yea

Kokomo Murase (Japan) and Cameron Spalding (Canada) have earned the crowns at the Winter Games NZ FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup.

People are being asked to report rook sightings during spring, when the pest birds are most active.

It's enough to make you a little green with envy. Gorgeous designs for Queenstown Lakes houses have seen local architects clean up at the regional finals of the Architectural Designers New Zealand competition, on Friday.

Wānaka’s local athletes held their own in the hugely competitive field in Saturday's qualification round of the FIS Snowboard Slopestyle World Cup, to the delight of the home crowd who lined the top of the Cardrona Alpine Resort course.

Time to don your tartan and pop on your dancing shoes this weekend – Cargo Collective are hosting their first Ceilidh.

Some big news out of Wellington last week, which presents a big opportunity for Queenstown and the wider region.

Wao Summit returns in October and for the first time is dedicating an entire day in both Queenstown and Wānaka to the building sector.

Queenstown Police are warning people buying goods from Facebook buy and sell sites and purchasing crypto currencies to be very vigilant after locals have been taken for a ride by scammers.

A rental car has smashed through a motel wall into a bedroom, youths have been on a shoplifting spree, two cars collided, and police also nabbed a few drink drivers this past week.

Alice Robinson has continued her incredible run of podiums, taking the win at the Winter Games NZ FIS Australia New Zealand Cup (ANC) Giant Slalom race.

The prime minister has called it an “energy security crisis” and signalled a review of New Zealand’s electricity market as wholesale prices spike and industries suffer.

Queenstown-based mental wellbeing charity Headlight is embarking on a new chapter with a new board chair and four new trustees.

Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust (QLCHT) has appointed Arthur Lee into the newly created role of Sustainability and Development Officer.

All good love stories should have a happy ending, and, despite immense trauma and loss, Emma Wilson’s does.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is keen to be part of a new funding approach for councils to deliver infrastructure, which includes enhanced private sector involvement and the liberalism of planning rules.

Queenstown festival Snow Machine will bring around 7,500 people to town next week, spending an estimated $19 million.

Perhaps council’s staff advisers had little choice but to retrospectively make true the claim in their LWB response to my editorial that Long Term Plan deliberations are public. Hoisted by their own petard.