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Posted 6 August, 2024

Calling all entrepreneurs with a plan! Startup Queenstown Lakes is running a new 10-week Startup Booster Programme to help founders take the next step towards launching their business.

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Posted 5 August, 2024

Auckland-based poet, author and playwright, Dominic Hoey, will perform an intimate night of poetry and storytelling at Sherwood this Friday. Local poets Bethany Rogers and Julian Noel will also join him to perform some poems at the start of the evening.

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Posted 5 August, 2024

Queenstown Lakes' red light zones - which contain no active brothels - have been expanded. The new Brothel Bylaw 2024 was approved by councillors on Thursday, after a hearings panel sorted through polarised, fiery written and in-person submissions.

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Posted 5 August, 2024

Trail-blazing plans to force property developers to pay towards affordable housing have been scrapped.

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Posted 5 August, 2024

Queenstowners can expect significant overnight disruption as the Frankton BP Roundabout project moves to its next stage.

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Posted 2 August, 2024

Queenstown Airport is donating $75,000 to local food rescue charity KiwiHarvest.

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Posted 2 August, 2024

A plan to diversify Queenstown Lakes economy away from just tourism and construction has been given the greenlight.

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Posted 1 August, 2024

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has been working with the community to develop a three-year Welcoming Plan for the district to ensure that all newcomers are able to thrive. The wider public are now being called on to share their thoughts

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Posted 1 August, 2024

With chilly late night rescues, lucky escapes and a Night n’ Day runner nabbed this past week, Police are also urging people to dob in those dealing in and using illicit drugs.

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Posted 31 July, 2024

Our bones are constantly remodelling, old bone breaking down (resorption) and new bone being made (formation).

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Posted 31 July, 2024

A freezing evening didn’t deter nearly a hundred locals from gathering at Rhyme x Reason Brewery in Wānaka on Wednesday night (30 July) to hear Wao Aotearoa director Monique Kelly launch this year’s summit.

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Posted 31 July, 2024

First Thursdays Quarterly is a free and fun event for art lovers. Join in the open-late across six exhibition spaces all located around Earl Street and Marine Parade in Queenstown.

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Posted 31 July, 2024

The snow has fallen at the perfect time for the NZ Skiing Masters Championships. Competitors head to Coronet Peak this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 3-4 August, for the first event of the calendar.

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Posted 31 July, 2024

Queenstown Airport has increased its parking charges for the first time since 2019 - but it won't affect short stayers.

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Posted 31 July, 2024

A fascination with New Zealand eventually led to long-time Queenstown Japanese hiking guide ‘Kuzzy’ Kogure landing a job at Tokyo’s NZ Embassy, moving to Queenstown, and becoming a TV icon in his homeland.

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Posted 30 July, 2024

Mother Nature has delivered a fresh blanket of snow to Coronet Peak, The Remarkables, Cardrona Alpine Resort and Treble Cone overnight. The mountains have welcomed between 15-50cm of snow – with more incoming.

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Posted 30 July, 2024

Queenstown Lakes District Council's plans for force property developers to pay towards affordable housing look to be dead in the water.

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Posted 30 July, 2024

Queenstown-based charitable trust Headlight has two of its team and one of its past facilitators as finalists in this year’s Inspirational Women Awards NZ.

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Posted 30 July, 2024

Work is ramping up on Queenstown's Frankton BP roundabout upgrade as contractors prepare to underground the power network.

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Posted 30 July, 2024

Applications are now open for the Central Lakes Arts Support Scheme (CLASS) grants. This initiative, set up in 2008 by the Central Lakes Trust (CLT), aims to foster and promote the arts at a local level.

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