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Nik Kiddle has announced he'll run for mayor of Queenstown Lakes in the elections later this year.

Queenstown legends Aaron Halstead and Ross Lawrence were among 188 New Zealanders awarded for their services, in the King's Birthday Honours.

Three men were extremely fortunate to escape injury on Thursday when the van they were travelling in rolled after losing control on a bend on State Highway 6 just between the Kelvin Heights turnoff and Boyd Road around midday.

Wānaka’s Scope Communications has been recognised as the best Small to Medium PR Consultancy in Aotearoa at the prestigious Public Relations Institute of New Zealand Awards.

Winter brings a sharp rise in food insecurity across the region, with our recipient charities reporting a more than 50% increase in demand for food support programmes last year.

Queenstown’s town centre will receive a welcome boost just in time for King’s Birthday weekend, with Gorge Road, Ballarat Street and Athol Street all reopening at 5pm today, Friday 30 May.

There are snowfall warnings today for the Crown Range Road (from 10am-9pm) and Lindis Pass (from 1pm,-10pm). Up to 2cm may accumulate above 700m.

Meila Davis died of an aggressive bone cancer at age 13. Her mother is gutted about last week's Budget.

This week's letters to the editor.

Queenstown’s downtown volunteer Community Patrollers are warning those heading into town for a night out to “keep themselves safe” with the winter ski season approaching.

Mental Health by Katherine Froggatt

Light-up giant sculptures, luminous flora and fauna, and interactive installations are heading to Kiwi Park for the winter.

Over 500 students from Queenstown Lakes and Central Otago have officially graduated from Civil Defence’s 'Don’t Panic, We’ve Got This' school of emergency smarts — AKA ‘Clued Up Kids’.

She’s watched the hair on the principal’s legs catch fire, had a parapenter land on the library roof while teaching and been reprimanded for putting beer in the fish batter on an alcohol-free school camp.

More than 200 attendees gathered at Skyline Queenstown yesterday, as Electrify Queenstown 2025 got underway.

Impact100 Wakatipu members have put forward a record grant pool of $209,000 for 2025, bringing the organisation’s cumulative total to more $1.1 million.

Plans for a Queenstown gondola could be submitted to council later this year, with the first stage opening in late 2028.

Fast forward to 2030, what will the world look like? According to Heath Franklin, aka Chopper, humanity is all but wiped out and he’s the only one that can save us from the Softcockalypse. He’s bringing his comedy show to the Memorial Centre at the end of this month, where he’ll explain his plan to restart civilisation.

Wānaka resident and businessman Craig Gasson has announced he will run for Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC), saying he “believes it’s time to bring private sector thinking to local government delivery”.

Queenstown's first HIV home test kit vending machine has been installed at a local GPs.