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Posted 14 August, 2024

We are being told the health system is in crisis, “on the brink of failure” – spending beyond its budget, waiting times getting longer, suffering from widespread staff shortages.

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Posted 14 August, 2024

QLDC could so easily fix the risk in its draft Long Term Plan that it loses supermajority shareholder control of Queenstown Airport without any community consultation. But instead of addressing this risk, Council’s “correction/clarification” of my Lakes Weekly Bulletin (LWB) article sought to obfuscate, misinform and divert attention from the serious issues raised. Issues about which Council’s LWB response was silent.

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Posted 14 August, 2024

No fancy hospitality school launched longtime Queenstown restaurateur Tony Robertson’s 45-year career.

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Posted 14 August, 2024

An independent panel has approved resource consent, subject to conditions, to subdivide land for a housing development at Frankton-Ladies Mile Highway in Queenstown.

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Posted 13 August, 2024

“Game-changing”, “awesome” and “transformational” are just some of the things that past participants have said about how Wastebusters’ new programme changes the way they shop for and plan their weekly meals. Welcome to Every Bite.

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Posted 13 August, 2024

Council staff are working through more than 340 submissions on McDonald’s application to open a restaurant and drive-through on the outskirts of Wānaka.

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Posted 12 August, 2024

Queenstown Lakes mayor Glyn Lewers says the council needs more than just new debt tools to pay its whopping $1.5 BILLION water bill.

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Posted 12 August, 2024

The Wild 2024 has become the latest Queenstown Lakes event to pull pin as economic pressures continue to bite.

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Posted 8 August, 2024

New Zealand’s only cross-country ski area Snow Farm is celebrating its busiest season on record as it gears up to open its new $750,000 base building this month.

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Posted 8 August, 2024

What’s the one thing we can all plant that will have the most benefit to our food eating lives for years and years to come? Well, from the title you can deduct my opinion very quickly.

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Posted 8 August, 2024

People are jumping on the buses in Queenstown in record numbers with a 51% increase year-on-year. Some 1,897,200 trips were taken on Orbus Queenstown from July 2023 to June 2024, exceeding all previous financial years.

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Posted 8 August, 2024

Queridos amigos y seguidores de esta columna, tras más de un año entregando este servicio a la comunidad hispanoparlante de Queenstown, ha llegado el momento de decir adiós.

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Posted 8 August, 2024

It may have been quiet on the usual Queenstown ski season crime and disorder front this past week but Police have been reining in excessive speedsters recently and keeping a check on over-indulgers downtown.

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Posted 7 August, 2024

Monthly Horoscope – August 2024 Get Astrology Gift Cards

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Posted 7 August, 2024

After more than 50 years peering into grimacing, toothy grins, Queenstown’s longest serving dentist John Molloy has found something new to get his teeth into.

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Posted 7 August, 2024

Conservationist and long-term local Sararose Brown has been appointed as the new Operations Manager for the Whakatipu Reforestation Trust (WRT).

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Posted 7 August, 2024

The road racing at the Paris Olympic Games may not have brought riches in terms of top-10 placings for Kiwi riders, but it did bring some remarkable scenes in remarkable settings, Cycling New Zealand says.

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Posted 6 August, 2024

It is often said around Queenstown but worth saying again: it’s a rare privilege to live somewhere with a pristine natural environment on the doorstep.

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Posted 6 August, 2024

Queenstown Lakes District Council has appointed Katherine Harbrow as its new finance boss.

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Posted 6 August, 2024

As he was launched off a two-metre ramp and into Vaire-sur-Marne white water course, New Zealand's Finn Butcher, a first-time Olympian, in a first-time Olympic sport known as a demolition derby on water, was on a collision course with history.

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