Growing up under strict Communist rule in Poland, highly respected Queenstown osteopath Kasia (Katrina) Lukaszewicz saved £900 waitressing in London to marry a random Irishman in a bid to escape.
The Department of Conservation (DOC) plans to increase predator control in South Island beech forests, ahead of a major predicted beech 'mast'.
At the World’s Edge Festival (AWE) will celebrate their fifth festival this year, in October. They’ll be delivering an extensive programme of chamber music across Queenstown, Bannockburn, Wānaka and Cromwell.
A rare UK-based aircraft will be one of the International stars of next Easter’s Warbirds Over Wanaka airshow as the event marks the 90th anniversary of the first ever flight of the iconic Spitfire.
New Zealand is in for another celestial treat next week with a partial solar eclipse which will only be visible for handful of countries.
Two 24-year-old overindulging, heavily-intoxicated Australian men sparked a burglary call-out after they were seen banging on the door and trying to break into a St Matthews Place property on Queenstown Hill .
Queenstown transport group The Lightfoot Initiative is encouraging parents to write directly to Education Minister Erica Stanford over the touted removal of school buses.
Police investigating a Queenstown incident which left a man with serious injuries are seeking help from the public.
Police are continuing enquiries into an incident which left a man with serious injuries in Queenstown.
A Queenstown hotelier made a string of false claims, after the business's luxury "heli-crayfish experience" caught the attention of fisheries officers, documents show.
A 30-year-old man faces a range of charges after Police seized a sawn-off shotgun, cocaine and shotgun shells from a vehicle in Queenstown.
Salmonella Dub are coming to Queenstown to celebrate their 33.33rd birthday and the release of their digitally re-mastered full back catalogue.
Twenty-five years ago, Aaron Fleming was told he’d never physically exert himself again. This Sunday, he’ll stand on the start line of the men’s IRONMAN World Championship in Nice, France.
An estimated $44,000 of public money to fly Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to the top of a Queenstown mountain is a publicity stunt "gone badly wrong", Labour leader Chris Hipkins says.
A late burst of spring snow has allowed Snow Farm NZ to extend its winter season by two weeks into the school holidays.
Wakatipu Land Search and Rescue volunteers successfully trialled a RECCO detector device from a helicopter over the lower rocky outcrops of The Remarkables earlier this week, offering new hope to those needing rescued in the backcountry locally.
Peter Norris is what you’d call ‘old school Queenstown’, born just before World War II broke out in 1939, in a town of just over 1500 people, the solo local cop never far behind him and his mates and their boyhood antics.
Residents across the Queenstown Lakes District can now cast their all-important votes in the 2025 local elections.
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