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Posted 20 August, 2023

Winter Games NZ 2023 kicks off in five days with the Opening Ceremony in Wānaka.

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Posted 20 August, 2023

New architectural images of the New Dunedin Hospital (NDH) Inpatient Building give the community their first glimpse of the redesigned, state of the art facility.

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Posted 20 August, 2023

New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty (NZSIR) has bought First National Real Estate Wānaka, effectively doubling the size of its local operations.

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Posted 20 August, 2023

Anyone with an interest in local aviation and in particular Glenorchy Airstrip is invited to have their say on how the airstrip is managed.

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Posted 18 August, 2023

The New Zealand Red Stars Yak-52 aerobatic team is planning a world-first display at next Easter’s Warbirds Over Wanaka International Airshow to honour one of its founders.

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Posted 18 August, 2023

Auckland teenager Mikayla Smyth claimed two alpine ski racing gold medals at New Zealand’s home of alpine ski racing, Coronet Peak on Thursday.

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Posted 18 August, 2023

The three councils with the most boarding houses like Loafers Lodge in their area have all been told recently to improve their building warrant of fitness (WOF) systems.

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Posted 17 August, 2023

There are calls to extend the Lake Wānaka microplastics research project to include Lakes Wakatipu and Hawea using the model developed by Wānaka-based microplastics researcher Veronica Rotman.

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Posted 17 August, 2023

A total value of $1.076 billion worth of building consents was processed for the Queenstown Lakes District for the financial year ending June this year – 1585 consents, down 15 percent on the previous financial year.

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Posted 17 August, 2023

The best typography in the world will take over Te Atamira from Friday. Auckland-based creative agency Osborne Shiwan is bringing the annual Type Directors Club (TDC) Awards to Queenstown, which recognises design excellence and typographic innovation.

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Posted 16 August, 2023

With the current state of Queenstown’s housing market, it’s no surprise that there’s an increase of first home buyers entering the market, hoping to get out of the rental rat race.

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Posted 16 August, 2023

Police are appealing for dashcam footage after two youths were picked up for dishonesty and driving related offences between Queenstown and Cromwell.

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Posted 15 August, 2023

Belts are tightening as astronomically high living costs bite, purse strings too, affecting those heavily reliant on the Wakatipu community’s hugely generous heart.

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Posted 15 August, 2023

En la búsqueda de un mundo más sostenible, personas entusiastas de nuestra comunidad desempeñan un papel crucial en la promoción de prácticas ecoamigables en Queenstown.

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Posted 15 August, 2023

Xero founder Rod Drury is the latest philanthropist to assist a local environmental consortium in efforts to save native wildlife.

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Posted 15 August, 2023

In this episode of The Outlet Podcast, host Brent Harbour talks to Amanda Robinson, of the Lightfoot Initiative. They chat about about how Lightfoot came to be, its mission to reimagine transport use and how it advocates for the community.

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Posted 14 August, 2023

Having a post-work drink at the lakefront may become a fineable offence when a new alcohol bylaw comes into effect in Queenstown Lakes.

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Posted 14 August, 2023

He’s one of the country’s foremost botanists and ecologists, his vast knowledge still drawn on nationally as a conservation consultant, and still roaming the backcountry, despite turning 90 this month (August 21).

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Posted 14 August, 2023

NZSHRED’s sixth recycled snowboard art exhibition will take place at Sherwood from the 21st of August.

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Posted 14 August, 2023

This year for Conservation Week we are asking Aotearoa to take action for nature.

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