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Posted 10 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 10 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 10 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 10 July, 2024

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

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Posted 9 July, 2024

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

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Posted 9 July, 2024

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

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Posted 9 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 9 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 8 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 8 July, 2024

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

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Posted 7 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 7 July, 2024

A person has died in a crash in Wānaka.

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Posted 5 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 5 July, 2024

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'.

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Posted 5 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 4 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 4 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 3 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 3 July, 2024

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.

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Posted 3 July, 2024

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

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