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Youth Search and Rescue (YSAR) NZ is expecting a huge response when it launches its three-year programme for 14 to 18-year-olds in the Wakatipu next year.

An enterprising Wakatipu 14-year-old has raised $8500 for the much-needed Wakatipu Search and Rescue base after launching a bold initiative last year to boost Search and Rescue (SAR) coffers.

Two ice climbers have been rescued from Queenstown's Remarkables mountain range after getting lost in a snow storm.

Stuart Maclean was one of Queenstown’s tourism leaders back in the day, having arrived in 1969 at 26, as an NZI insurance salesman from Invercargill.

When it comes to preparation for snow sports, health should be a priority. Physical fitness, nutrition, sleep, rest, stretching and warm up are all essential to prevent injuries and enhance performance.

Women’s business coach, podcaster and blogger Jane Guy has interviewed more than 80 women since her Queenstown Life podcast relaunched three years ago.

A record $87,000 will be injected into initiatives that improve mental wellbeing, social connection and resilience in communities across the Southern Lakes region over the next few months.

Homeless people can no longer be inadvertently caught out by freedom camping laws.

Developers are getting their ducks in a row on three medium- and high-density housing projects in Queenstown. The separate developments could provide 153 homes of different sizes for the town, which remains in the grip of an affordability and availability housing crisis.

First Thursdays Queenstown is a free and family-friendly event that celebrates the diversity of arts and culture in Queenstown.

“Way, way too much snow”. That’s how Bridget Legnavsky describes her first season at Sugar Bowl resort, in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.

T Galleria by DFS opened in downtown Queenstown in the former O’Connells Mall late last year with what General Manager Mario Gabriel calls “excellent timing”.

Queenstown finally had a decent winter snow dump over the weekend, just in time for the school holidays.

Craig ‘Ferg’ Ferguson enjoyed spending the afternoon alongside some of Queenstown’s senior citizens recently, when he volunteered his time to help at their weekly Friday social session in the heart of the town.

More than 140 fighters took to the mats for the Carlson Gracie Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu New Zealand club competition in Queenstown last week, which also served as a grading ceremony, with a rare black belt awarded.

A whopping $613,000 in grants were approved by Central Lakes Trust last month to help community groups across Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago.

New Zealand’s Ice Hockey season is well underway and local team SkyCity Stampede have had a strong start.

She’s been likened to folk legend Joni Mitchell, but Arrowtown-raised Holly Arrowsmith’s own unique folk, ‘alt country’ style has made the Top 20 songs in APRA’s prestigious Silver Scroll Awards for the second time.

The new Skyline Queenstown gondola has been officially launched, with more capacity on offer.

What started in the mid-1990s as a means for two outdoor sports lovers to live in Queenstown has become one of the region’s most successful outdoor retail brands.