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A second valuable Life Education Trust Heartland mobile classroom has finally been purchased specifically for the Queenstown Lakes-Central Otago area, enabling the trust to reach an extra 5000 students a year.

Queenstown Police want to speak to this man about an assault in Ballarat Street this morning.

Heavy rain, snow and strong winds are expected for Queenstown's headwaters and mountains over the coming 48 hours.

Hanley's Farm developer RCL has splashed $70 million on a huge block of farmland and plans a massive new subdivision.

Simran Kaur is an authority when it comes to empowering women financially and she’s coming to Queenstown in June for the Westpac Queenstown Women in Business Conference. She wrote Girls that Invest and now runs the business of the same name with Sonya Gupthan.

Queenstown’s Ivy Box Gallery will host a Street Art Street Party on the King’s Birthday Weekend with proceeds going towards suicide prevention and support. Christchurch street artist Morks / ‘Morepork’ will be coming down to paint several large canvas’ in his signature style across Saturday and Sunday outside the gallery. The pieces will be auctioned off with 50% going towards the cause here in Queenstown.

Grit and determination. That’s what it takes to run a business in Queenstown Lakes.

For June’s Lakes Business, we’re taking a look at women in business as Queenstown Chamber of Commerce are preparing for the 11th annual Westpac Queenstown Women in Business Conference. When pulling together this issue, we discovered some common threads from the women we interviewed, namely, just how important it is to uplift one another and highlight women in business. As Simran Kaur, founder of Girls that Invest, puts it, “You cannot become what you don’t see.”

Queenstown's council is missing targets on building checks, which have been highlighted in the wake of the fatal Loafers Lodge hostel fire in Wellington.

Girls just want to have fun… and a few boys too, in kids’ netball in the Wakatipu with huge growth in the number of especially primary aged girls playing during the past five years.

A frog sitting in slowly warming water won’t notice the change – and will eventually be boiled dead. Whereas if it jumped into hot water, it would immediately jump out.

The inaugural Wao Film Festival was a goosebump-inducing success, and it’s not too late to tune in and watch online.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) will seek endorsement from Elected Members to notify its Urban Intensification Variation to the Proposed District Plan (PDP), at the Full Council Meeting on Thursday 1 June 2023.

First Thursdays Queenstown is a free community event that celebrates the diversity of arts and culture in Queenstown. Kick off a weekend of creative exploration on Thursday 1 June with a fun and friendly art crawl across six exhibition spaces. This month get your art fix on Thursday evening before you roll into Luma the following day.

If you’re planning to head in to LUMA this King’s Birthday Weekend the last thing you want to be doing is driving around looking for a park.

Greenstone Entertainment have this morning announced dates and venues for the 2024 Summer Concert Tour. The three-show nationwide tour will be taking place from late January

Luxon and Willis were hosted in the resort by Queenstown MP Joseph Mooney, as campaigning for the October General Election ramps up. After speaking to party faithful at the Events Centre on Thursday afternoon, they had a post-Budget session with the Chamber at the Holiday Inn Remarkables Park.

A host of Queenstown hospo people and businesses have been announced as finalists for the Hospitality New Zealand Awards For Excellence 2023.

Born into a legendary Wakatipu high country station family, Joy Veint enjoyed a fabulous outdoor childhood growing up on beautiful Mount Aurum Station at Skippers. Her runholder father, ‘Mick’ Sarginson, was renowned locally for his tenacity tackling the rugged and remote sheep station from 1957 until 1969.

It’s been a popular community favourite for some 35 years and if somebody doesn’t come to the rescue quickly Queenstown Costume Hire’s collection of thousands of fabulous items will be sold off piece by piece.