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The 11th annual Aotearoa Surf Film Festival will roll into Queenstown and Wanaka this week.

March is Slow Fashion Month and Wastebusters are shining a light on promoting slow fashion as the norm and reducing the environmental and social impacts of textile waste.

It will likely be several months before Speight's Ale House opens again after Sunday morning's blaze.

Veteran Queenstown cross country and telemark ski instructor Jef Desbecker says it’s “super important and absolutely crucial” for the region that the necessary funds are raised to build a base building at Snow Farm.

Another $50,000 will be injected into initiatives that improve mental wellbeing, social connection and resilience in communities across the Southern Lakes region this autumn.

Alpine ski racing superstar Alice Robinson has wrapped up her Northern Hemisphere competition season with a seventh-place finish at the Giant Slalom World Cup finals held in Andorra.

A Queenstown pub in an historic downtown building has been extensively damaged by a fire that broke out this morning.

Auckland Airport has unveiled a $3.9 billion redevelopment project, which will see it combine its domestic and international terminals prompting warnings that it will force up airfares.

Queenstown Lakes residents are facing an average 13.6% rates rise, to pay for leaky buildings claims and rising costs.

One of Queenstown’s most loved artists, Da’Vella Gore, will be farewelled this Saturday (March 18) at a service at her beloved Stoneridge Estate Chapel overlooking Lake Hayes, which all began out of her passion for old church buildings.

They’re the hearts with arms and legs of the Wakatipu community. Baskets of Blessing’s contribution has been so great that should its army of some 40 willing volunteers cease to operate that would leave a massive void.

Work to upgrade the electricity network at the Cromwell end of Kawarau Gorge means there will be temporary road closures tomorrow, Thursday, 16 March.

The stunning Glendhu Station will be the new home for Ripe Wine & Food Festival.

With 36 holes, 312 golfers, and thousands watching, there was a lot to cover at the New Zealand Open.

Two upbeat participatory dance events are on the programme at this year’s Wānaka Festival of Colour. Celebrated dance choreographer Michael Parmenter and Balfolk Dunedin Director Kate Grace will lead the dances in Bannockburn and Wānaka at the end of March.

Hash brownies, delicious Valli wine, drop-dead views of the Remarkables and the Shotover River... If you wondered what all the noise in the Wakatipu Basin was on Wednesday evening, it was just a huge gathering of happy, chatty women getting together to celebrate International Women’s Day.

Here’s why your dad’s 30 year old jacket is actually the best. If you’re still sporting your father’s tweed blazer, elbow patches and all, or wearing mum’s netball uniform to practice - we want to know!

He’s negotiated the craggy Shotover River canyons and the shallow Dart River braids at speed for 40 years, taking thousands of thrillseeking tourists on the jet boat ride of their lives.

The tenth Wānaka Festival of Colour is hitting the streets from 26 March – 2 April. The bi-annual celebration of the arts will host international acts for the first time since 2019 and has a programme that is bursting with dance performances, live music, theatre and comedy.