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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.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was at The Remarkables skifield on Friday to open the new Shadow Basin Express chairlift.

An Otago lines company says it cannot give "cast-iron" assurance that selling Aurora Energy will get a premium price - but expects it will be well sought after.

Police have now confirmed the names of the two people who died in a crash on Malaghans Road on Thursday. They were Simran Shiuagani Mala, 25, and Jamie William Pitman, 35, both from Frankton, Queenstown.

Queenstown's alpine ski star Alice Robinson is the guest on this week's Outlet Podcast, talking technique, her team and the top two inches.

Public consultation has opened on plans to transfer nine dedicated elderly housing units to a housing trust.

Arrowtown-based Hugo Charitable Trust has donated a whopping $735,000 to cover the restoration of the historic gold mining tunnel on a new Queenstown trail.

The atmosphere was electric in the centre of Arrowtown (Kā-Muriwai) for the Matariki Arrowtown Kā-Muriwai festivities.

Two people died in a two-vehicle crash on Malaghans Road, Queenstown, last night. It's the second fatal accident on the road in the past four years.

Ignited firecrackers thrown amongst breakfast patrons, credit card thefts and fraud, and an angry bar patron have kept Police busy this past week.