Despite an anticipated increase in domestic travellers to Queenstown Lakes this summer, the number of freedom campers is so far well down on recent summers.
Organisers of the Gibbston Valley Winery Summer Concert near Queenstown have been forced to change the line-up because of Covid-19 outbreaks in two Australian states.
A failed attempt to drill a borehole beneath Queenstown’s town centre, and instead install a new wastewater pipeline using traditional methods is expected to cost ratepayers up to $2.5million.
An attempt to drill a borehole beneath the Queenstown town centre for a new wastewater pipeline has been abandoned after the contractor struck "prehistoric" timber 20m underground.
A Queenstown drug dealer built up a customer base in the resort’s bars and nightclubs before taking his business online to avoid detection by police, a court has heard.
In the latest leg of a 500-year-old waka’s journey, two years of planning was executed in one hour of carefully choreographed movements at Te Runanga o Otakou yesterday.