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The Southern Lakes can’t afford to host the SailGP – or any other major events

by Peter Newport - Mar 25,2024

Video: Wānaka's Luca Harrington scores bronze at World Slopestyle Cup

Mar 25,2024

Full results from Whakatipu Legend swim event

Mar 24,2024

Lake Hayes Estate video shows strength of last night's earthquake

by Peter Newport - Mar 23,2024

Video: Wānaka's Finn Bilous scores bronze in dramatic Swiss final

Mar 23,2024

Queenstown fire crews fight Friday night gondola tree fire

by Peter Newport - Mar 23,2024

Tourism Minister announces $5 m regional events fund in Queenstown

Mar 22,2024

Wānaka gets QLDC $400,000 'footpath to nowhere'

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 22,2024

Consent application marks first steps to Wānaka satellite hospital

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 21,2024

QLDC makes false claim that arterial road is 420 metres longer than reality

by Peter Newport - Mar 21,2024

Mass public meeting in Wānaka calls for new hospital

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 21,2024

Mayor warns of CODC 24% rate rise

Mar 20,2024

Review to even out Cromwell-Alexandra council imbalance

by Kim Bowden - Mar 20,2024

Government decision due on Queenstown accommodation supplement

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 20,2024

Two Lakeview apartments sell for $33 million - but ratepayers left in the red

Mar 20,2024

Internal emails show QLDC shared concerns over Ferry Hill

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 20,2024

Tourist balloon makes expert landing near Queenstown airport

by Peter Newport - Mar 20,2024

Golf course trees felled to make way for new Cromwell water pipe

by Kim Bowden - Mar 20,2024

Ladies Mile gridlock today - the new normal

by Peter Newport - Mar 20,2024

Crux site visit: little evidence of arterial road work

by Peter Newport - Mar 19,2024

Arterial road whistleblower: cover ups, incompetence and QLDC tantrums

by Kim Bowden - Mar 19,2024

Queenstown police looking for man after Ballarat St burglary

by Kim Bowden - Mar 19,2024

Dunstan councillors disagree on future for controversial land and water plan

by Kim Bowden - Mar 18,2024

Meridian: Electric Manapōuri ferry can survive floating log collision

by Peter Newport - Mar 18,2024

Q’town Arterial Road: UK engineers finish major motorway project in 48 hours

by Peter Newport - Mar 18,2024

Lachie Stevens-McNab and Eliana Hulsebosch grab gold at Crankworx

Mar 18,2024

Watch: Second place for Queenstown's Alice Robinson at World Cup finals

Mar 18,2024

Crux won’t generate AI news – but be afraid of those that do

by Peter Newport - Mar 17,2024

Queenstown international passengers up 27% from pre-Covid

by Kim Bowden - Mar 15,2024

Is Farmers coming to Frankton - or the police?

by Peter Newport - Mar 15,2024

Mandated reserve closures 'not the right approach': Skyline

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 15,2024

Aurora says 'business as usual' as Dunedin council considers sale

by Kim Bowden - Mar 15,2024

Video: Wānaka's Ben Richards scores Gold in Austria

Mar 15,2024

Ladies Mile approval: 2,400 high density units, Howards Drive traffic lights

Mar 14,2024

'Road to nowhere' cutbacks miss $400,000 art panels

by Peter Newport - Mar 14,2024

QLDC councillor uses TikTok to make council 'digestible'

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 14,2024

QLDC councillor: 'We are being shielded from the community'

by Peter Newport - Mar 14,2024

Cooler weather means daytime road works on Gibbston SH6

Mar 14,2024

Zero-emission hydrofoil ferry coming to Lake Manapōuri

by Kim Bowden - Mar 14,2024

Time off for do-good behaviour - Queenstowners stop work to reforest a hillside

Mar 13,2024

Pedestrian overbridge axed as arterial road cost-cutting continues

by Kim Bowden - Mar 13,2024

Investigation into 'unexplained' death in Lake Hāwea continues

by Kim Bowden - Mar 13,2024

'Taken on board' - Mayor acknowledges Crux survey results and comments

by Peter Newport - Mar 13,2024

QLDC 15% community rating: Response from mayor and CEO

by Peter Newport - Mar 12,2024

Wānaka's problem petrol under investigation

by Kim Bowden - Mar 12,2024

Apology to Jim Boult

Mar 12,2024

Esther Whitehead's QLDC mid-term report: The good, the bad and the ugly

by Esther Whitehead - Mar 12,2024

Petrol sales paused in Wānaka after claims of vehicles stalling

by Kim Bowden - Mar 11,2024

Queenstown Nursery: the green-thumbed partners who dream plants

by Lauren Pattemore - Mar 11,2024

Gibbston residents disappointed at unauthorised Kawarau kayak party

by Kim Bowden - Mar 11,2024

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