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Mental Health by Katherine Froggatt

Combining community, creativity and curated compositions, At The World’s Edge (AWE) will once again tour the Central Lakes region, performing for over 2,000 students at multiple early childhood centres, primary schools and high schools.

Police are calling for help from the public to identify a man in his 30s of Asian complexion who may be of assistance in the extensive search for a 47-year-old Brazilian woman who’s been missing in the Skippers Saddle-Mount Dewar area for almost two weeks.

Police seek the public's help to identify a man seen on the summit track in the Mount Dewar area about 12.30pm on Friday afternoon 18 September.

One of Southand’s leading wool auctioneers and classers by his early 20s, it was that keen eye for an entrepreneurial opportunity that would initially land Derek Bulman, 85 next month, in Queenstown.

A Queenstown firefighting legend has recently returned from the US where he had his work cut out for him helping manage and coordinate four different helicopter bases – two in Oregon and two in Washington, in the massive battles there against wildfires.

Alternative-folk artist Reb Fountain will play at Yonder in October as part of her nation-wide tour. The tour is in support of her latest album, Water for Gasoline, which stays true to her genre-defining sound – smooth and captivating.

A chat with a neighbour. A walk with friends. A chance to try something new.

Police and LandSAR volunteers continue to scour the rugged hill country around Skippers Saddle and Mount Dewar for the second day today (24 September) in the hope of finding clues as to the whereabouts of a missing woman last seen at Skippers Saddle, near Coronet Peak, on Friday, 18 September.

As we move into spring, the soil starts awakening from its slumber and we get excited for the coming growing season.

A multi-award-winning Kiwi architect in New Zealand and Fiji for 56 years, Murray Cockburn’s survived sharemarket crashes and coups, his unique rustic schist, timber style now iconic in Queenstown.

Some volunteer firefighters are concerned that they can’t get through Queenstown’s notorious traffic congestion to respond to callouts, and while the local FENZ assistant district commander says it hasn’t affected response times yet, it potentially could.

Te Atamira, Welcoming Communities and local iwi Kāi Tahu have teamed up to bring Te Waharoa ki Whakatipu | Gateway to the Whakatipu to our community.

The Wakatipu Anglers Club is based in Queenstown and meets on a regular basis.

Ben Elms will be conducting a hands-on apple grafting demonstration on Saturday, 19 September.

Her cousin is an internationally renowned Kiwi movie icon, and she’s been private nurse to wealthy British aristocracy, but you wouldn’t catch retired Queenstown nurse Lindsay Jackson skiting about all this.

While there was widespread alarm both on the ground and on board as significant flames leapt from the engine of a Qantas jet upon take-off from Queenstown last Saturday (5 September), Qantas assures its pilots had everything under control.

At the World’s Edge Festival kicked will return on 3 October. It delivers an extensive programme of chamber music, spanning across Queenstown, Bannockburn, Wānaka and Cromwell.

Ten people were taken to Lakes District Hospital by St John Ambulance crews, at least one with moderate injuries, after what is believed to have been a head-on collision between two vehicles near the summit on Crown Range Road at around 3.30pm yesterday (9 September).

It takes a bit to faze Mary May. The hardy 89-year-old, once a Scurr, was raised deep in the Cardrona Valley, no electricity until after she’d left home to work in Wānaka in 1956.