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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.

A 33-year-old local man faces serious charges after a vicious assault at Sky City Casino.

With the known high rate of cocaine use in the Queenstown area Police are urging extreme caution among users after a white powder being sold as cocaine cut with the local anaesthetic tetracaine was found in Dunedin recently.

Last Friday, 16 May, marked three years since Te Atamira opened as a dedicated space for creativity and connection in the Whakatipu region. Since then, it has welcomed more than 2,500 visitors each week, growing into one of the most active venues in Aotearoa’s second most creative town.

Queenstowners will hit the slopes in less than one month, if the snow gods deliver.

Thirty-one technology companies will be exhibiting at Queenstown's Host-Tech conference Expo Day this Thursday, with local workers invited to pop down and see the latest solutions.

Queenstown's ambition to become a global tech hub took a major leap forward this week. Otago University has announced plans to partner with cybersecurity powerhouse Palo Alto Networks to develop and deliver cutting-edge programmes in digital defence in the resort town.

Firefighters are battling a house fire in the roof space of a property opposite Queenstown Central retail park, Frankton.

Brock and the team at Longevity Health Supplements have created an online space to explore and support how you can live your healthiest and longest life.

Queenstown principals and parents are pushing back after the Ministry of Education signalled it may pull the plug on free school buses.

A 37-year-old Canterbury man has been charged with male assaults female after allegedly punching a woman in the head in Cow Lane, soon after 12.30am on Saturday.

A Woolworths supermarket is coming to Queenstown's Ladies Mile.

Join us for an inspiring evening of kōrero, ideas, and practical solutions at the Electrify Queenstown Community Evening Sessions — a free public event designed to spark meaningful conversations about how we can power a cleaner, more resilient future together.