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Posted 7 September, 2025

A video showing a group of backcountry skiers being caught in an avalanche in the Treble Cone backcountry yesterday has prompted a serious warning for backcountry enthusiasts.

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Posted 5 September, 2025

Queenstown-based tourism giant RealNZ has been listed as a finalist in the 2025 New Zealand Tourism Awards.

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Posted 4 September, 2025

The Whakatipu Reforestation Trust has been operating since 2013, working to grow and plant native trees and shrubs throughout the Whakatipu Basin. With 129,000 plants in the ground to date, the impact is starting to add up.

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Posted 4 September, 2025

Plans for Atlas High School have been rejected by the government’s Charter School Authorisation Board.

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Posted 4 September, 2025

Cardrona Valley Road has re-opened following a serious crash yesterday afternoon. One person was critically injured, two people sustained serious injuries and a further two sustained moderate injuries.

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Posted 3 September, 2025

Passengers took nearly two million trips on Queenstown buses over 12 months.

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Posted 3 September, 2025

Legendary Queenstown award-winning architect Michael Wyatt doesn’t just love drawing. He’s pretty keen on cars, now the proud owner of seven classy classics, including a 1968 4.9-litre V8 Maserati - his “babies”.

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Posted 3 September, 2025

New Zealand ski racing superstar Alice Robinson has been crowned the 2025 New Zealand Giant Slalom National Champion on home snow at Coronet Peak for the third year in a row.

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Posted 2 September, 2025

Recent calls from sections of the tourism industry to cut the international visitor levy (IVL) risk undermining one of the few bright spots in current government policies shaping the sector.

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Posted 2 September, 2025

When MC Katie Bradford asked candidates at the Chambers’ Mayoral debate last week “Would you consider a moratorium on future development until our infrastructure issues are sorted?” there was an audible ripple of support just for the fact that she asked the question.

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Posted 2 September, 2025

Love Queenstown and Love Wānaka Community Funds are distributing a combined $85k to a dozen local organisations working to protect and regenerate the natural environment.

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Posted 2 September, 2025

Remarkable Theatre’s latest production is Kiwi playwright Roger Hall’s Take a Chance on Me. The funny, warm and relatable comedy will take over Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall next week and follows a lively group of characters as they navigate the ups and downs of love, loneliness and starting over later in life.

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Posted 2 September, 2025

A new Wānaka playground and reserve remains closed off to public access despite having been completed in June.

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Posted 2 September, 2025

Wealthy foreigners on a so-called "golden visa" will be allowed to buy a luxury home in New Zealand once more, with the coalition government confirming a new exemption to the foreign buyers' ban.

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Posted 1 September, 2025

Plans for a Queenstown funicular, new ski field, convention centre and housing development will not be Fast-Tracked.

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Posted 1 September, 2025

Award-winning writers, big personalities and a slew of talented southerners are all in the mix for next month's Queenstown Writers Festival.

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Posted 29 August, 2025

Resource consent has been approved for the Wānaka Health Precinct joint venture between Roa and Kā Rūnaka (represented by Puketeraki Ltd and Ōtākou Ltd).

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Posted 28 August, 2025

Much-loved Queenstown tourism business Nomad Safaris has new owners.

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Posted 27 August, 2025

This Friday, 29 August, is Daffodil Day - the Cancer Society’s most iconic fundraising day of the year. For Queenstown and the surrounds, our local Cancer Society branch have been working on events to get the community involved and spread information about cancer.

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Posted 27 August, 2025

She’s been trailblazing for women since bravely setting off on her OE from Britain, riding solo around part of Australia on her 125cc Suzuki motorbike.

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