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Music runs through the veins of the Coutts family line, but it took some wild teenage tamperings and a few risky adventures for long-time Queenstown musician Noel Coutts to find the right note.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is launching the Winter Wellness Series to promote wellbeing and help build a sense of community.

Recently, Queenstown Lakes District Council launched its climate action plan including the goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 44% by 2030.

Queenstown tech start-up Chomp Food Safety is expanding its focus in Australia, with co-founder Paul Wilson relocating to Queensland.

Tourist towns and rural communities were hit hard by border closures and lockdowns in the Covid-19 pandemic. People living in Queenstown Lakes, Central and Fiordland areas faced not only the prospect of a catching a deadly virus but also the economic impact of job losses and businesses going under, not to mention isolation and actual illness. But if there is a silver lining from the suffering, it's found in the response from the communities and many charities, groups and agencies that supported them.

Police have revealed the person killed in a crash between a car and a push bike in Wānaka on Saturday (July 6) was a 25-year-old tourist from Japan.

Sustainable Queenstown is hosting a Plastic-Free Night Market and they’re seeking to showcase local businesses that provide everyday household products and services that are plastic and single-use free.

There's less than a week to go until the DFS Queenstown 2024 Winter Fireworks light up the night sky above the bay.

Feral cats are causing the deaths of countless native taonga, conservationists say. The apex predators are different to purring pet moggies or strays. They can weigh up to 7kg and feed on everything.

A person has died in a crash in Wānaka.

Queenstown Primary School’s $1million-plus property redevelopment was officially opened this week after two years of hard work, but it’s straight back to fundraising a further $400,000 for the remaining projects in the school’s 10-Year Plan.

How many tourists should Queenstown Lakes welcome each year? That's the question facing a team of researchers from Griffith University as they begin a project to create an 'optimal visitation model'.

Compost tumblers can often be found sulking in a garden mostly unused. There are generally a couple of reasons for their lack of use. There’s the ‘one day I will get round to using this gardening marvel’ or alternatively the ‘I used it once and it didn’t really work’ reason.

New Zealanders are giving up spending at a rate that surpasses the downturn of the global financial crisis (GFC), and is close to passing that of the 1980s sharemarket crash, as well as the tough times of the 1970s.

Police removed a number of partygoers at last weekend’s Mardi Gras event with controlled drugs, including MDMA, other substances being sold as MDMA, and cannabis, but overall behaviour was good.

Some 90 works from Queenstown Art Society’s members will be on display at Te Atamira for the next five weeks, and they're all available for purchase.

He was New Zealand’s longest running breakfast radio announcer, starting out as the youngest at 24 and clocking more than 40 years in the game.

Queenstown Airport is installing new safety measures to stop aircraft that overshoot its short runway.

Southern Lakes Sanctuary has secured enough funding to continue its critical conservation work in the Queenstown Lakes District – but they’re not out of the woods yet.

Queenstown hospo giants Future Hospitality Group have scooped three finalist spots in the national Hospitality New Zealand Awards For Excellence 2024.