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Autumn proved a difficult season for Queenstown Lakes businesses with some reporting a 30% drop in profits.

A Queenstown resident charged an extortionate $89 for a 9km cab ride is warning others to be on their guard.

Aurora Energy says it is making good progress on the upgrade of the Queenstown zone substation, behind Queenstown Fire Station.

Venice Qin produces a fusion of electronic pop music with strong vocals. The 22-year-old originally hails from Auckland but now spends her time in Sydney – on a recent trip to Queenstown for the Chamber of Commerce Women in Business event she recorded four songs for her upcoming LP at Te Atamira.

From expensive jackets, with phones, wallets and passports, swiped from local bars and snowboarding gear stolen up the mountain, to late night punch-ups, alcohol-fuelled icy road crashes and stray goats and deer - Police have been busy this past week.

She’s mother to many - ‘Mother Teresa’ to abandoned orphans across the world, and a whole generation later the immense satisfaction Sue van Schreven receives from making such a difference in these young lives keeps driving her to do more.

New fees and charges are now in place for many Queenstown Lakes District Council. The changes cover sport and recreation, community facilities / parks and reserves, libraries, planning and development, parking, mooring and jetty fees, environmental health services, and Wānaka airport landing fees.

Queenstown-based scenic flight company Glenorchy Air has been awarded a Tripadvisor Travellers Choice Best of the Best 2024 Award for its Milford Sound flightseeing / cruise experience.

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Award-winning poet, author and playwright Dominic Hoey will run two creative workshops in Queenstown in August.

Queenstown's mayor Glyn Lewers is urging residents to have their say on council's $2.4 BILLION plans. Only 150 submissions have been received on the draft Long Term Plan for 2024-2034, since consultation opened about three weeks ago. That's less than 0.3% of the 52,800 population

RealNZ boss Dave Beeche talks Covid recovery, sector growth, conservation, the Milford Opportunities Project and Queenstown's future, on this week's Outlet Queenstown podcast.

More than a year on from the public protests about Queenstown's rental housing crisis, the pressure appears to have eased but problems remain.

The Department of Conservation is urging people to stop feeding kea following a spate of preventable road deaths of the parrot.

Locals will be able to have their say on McDonalds’ controversial bid for a Wānaka restaurant from this Friday (July 12).

Desde temprana edad, Victoria Bálsamo, oriunda de Paysandú, Uruguay, descubrió que el movimiento y el baile la hacían conectar con sus emociones. Fue así como de a poco esta disciplina se fue transformando en lo que ahora es su pasión.

A teenage ‘sextortion’ and an appeal for witnesses to a vicious downtown assault feature in this week's Crimeline..

"Just like cooking with friends" – that’s how Happiness House’s Coordinator Steph Burbidge describes their free bi-weekly Cook Around the World classes.

A "concerning number" of drivers are being caught at more than 20kmph over the limit, says the lower South's top road cop, with some doing "horrendous" speeds.

Winter Pride organisers are changing it up for 2024 with the return of Pride in the Park and many more laid back social events on the calendar.