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How would you like to use and enjoy Widgeon Park in the future? That’s the question on the colourful Queenstown Lakes District Council flyer that dropped into my actual letter box this week.

Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) is asking the community to share their thoughts on a draft Development Plan for Arrowtown Riverside Reserves, a network of public reserves that line the Haehaenui Arrow River.

Queenstown Lakes Community Action leaders are frustrated testing has been scaled back around the controversial Shotover Wastewater Treatment Plant.

A palatial 1920s building near Clyde is on the brink of a lavish new chapter, painstakingly restored from years of mould, rodents and neglect.

Tasman police are appealing for information to identify victims of a Wānaka couple’s elaborate fraud scheme, which used false cancer claims to swindle more than $1M and fund a “lavish lifestyle” until their arrest yesterday (Thursday August 14).

While much of Queenstown’s history focuses on stories of the men of the time, author Lauren Roche is focusing one of the most influential women of the time – Julia Eichardt.

Queenstown Airport is celebrating its 90th birthday, making it one of New Zealand’s oldest commercial airports still operating on its original site.

An Australian tourist leaves the country today with an expensive dent in his wallet after he was clocked at 168kmh in his rental vehicle, three passengers on board, last week.

Kiwisaver provider Simplicity is to spend hundreds of million dollars on building up to 600 long-term rental houses in Queenstown.

Two new seasonal visas announced by the government have been welcomed by local operators.

Queenstown’s queen of cat care and one of the resort’s most renowned art dealers, Invercargill-born Julia Milley has had strong ties with this area since she was four.

A major new office, retail and parking complex in Five Mile is among a host of new planning applications in the works.

Kiwis and foreign buyers are looking at buying the iconic Cardrona Hotel.

Winter Pride 2025 is shaping up to be one of the biggest yet, with ticket sales already well ahead of last year and thousands of visitors expected to join Queenstown’s 10-day rainbow celebration.

Police were shocked to find eight people – six of them unrestrained - in a campervan caught speeding on State Highway 6 near Kingston last Sunday.

Property values ticked lower in the July quarter as the winter freeze continues, but the deep south continues to buck the trend. The biggest rises were in Queenstown-Lakes, up 2.4 percent to $1.86 million.

Cook Around the World is an ongoing cooking series of free community workshops hosted by Happiness House in partnership with Lakes Multicultural Collective.

Rudim3ntal, Santigold, and Dizzee Rascal are all confirmed for Rhythm and Alps.

State Highway 6 through Kawarau Gorge will be closed overnight for eight weeks from 31 August as work is carried out to fix an under slip at at Scrubby Corner.

The first major international act for next Easter’s Warbirds Over Wānaka Airshow has been confirmed.