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Police respond to massive Queenstown cocaine use increase

Jun 26,2025

Police data: Queenstown now the Cocaine Capital of NZ

by Peter Newport - Jun 26,2025

QLDC pays Aussie consultants $250,000 to listen to Wānaka residents

Jun 26,2025

Queenstown bus fare increase, free travel for children scrapped

Jun 25,2025

ORC Central/Southern Lakes rates increase set around 3%

Jun 25,2025

Veolia found to have unfairly dismissed expert Queenstown water engineer

by Peter Newport - Jun 24,2025

Wānaka Airport - a call for past lessons to be learned.

by Nick Page - Jun 24,2025

Junior World Football event for Queenstown

Jun 23,2025

Centuria CEO on Queenstown Lakeview exit: "Time is right to step back."

by Peter Newport - Jun 23,2025

Major 25% investor and partner pulls out of QLDC's Lakeview project

by Peter Newport - Jun 23,2025

$27 million of new Queenstown and Central Otago education funding

Jun 19,2025

Queenstown airport forecasts 250,000 passengers in the next three months

Jun 19,2025

Queenstown mountain cable car/subdivision/ski field - fast track details released

by Peter Newport - Jun 19,2025

QLDC's trust solution: bring in the consultants

by Peter Newport - Jun 17,2025

Quentin Smith considers QLDC mayoralty, other councillors declare their intentions

by Peter Newport - Jun 17,2025

Court orders QLDC to pay $235,000 legal costs over sewage failures

by Peter Newport - Jun 16,2025

Local Government Minister on QLDC trust survey: Action up to the community

by Peter Newport - Jun 16,2025

Early exits at the top of QLDC could transform the 2025 local elections

Jun 13,2025

QLDC deleted 50% of trust survey responses as "too negative."

by Peter Newport - Jun 12,2025

PowerNet says new fuses should help prevent another Hanley's Farm outage

by Peter Newport - Jun 11,2025

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