Anju Okajima (4, with pink belt) follows Issei Muta (6) and Towa Miyoshi (4) during the Bon dance, part of the second annual Natsu Matsuri Japanese Summer Festival in Queenstown on Saturday.
A Wanaka landowner has been fined $20,000 and ordered to carry out about $100,000 of replanting after admitting illegally clearing indigenous vegetation last year.
While the long-awaited two-lane Kawarau Falls Bridge is expected to be open by Christmas, it could be more than five years before State Highway 6 has four lanes.
While some say a trial pedestrianisation of a Queenstown street has made it "extremely tacky", resembling a "freedom camping precinct", DowntownQT has hailed it a success.
The District Licensing Committee has approved an application by Skyline Enterprises Ltd to sell alcohol from a souvenir shop, a move some agencies believe will be precedent-setting.
A Queenstown lawyer says the NZ Transport Agency’s failure to proactively plan for traffic upgrades in the Queenstown Lakes "borders on the legendary".
Authorities are still looking for a couple seen near Rat Point last week before a massive fire which decimated 150ha of native vegetation near Queenstown.
The chairman of a hearing to determine the fate of one of Wakatipu's special housing areas yesterday questioned if the application would have been successful outside the SHA process.
Proponents of a retirement village beside State Highway 6 at Ladies Mile say another roundabout at the intersection of the highway and Howards Dr is "not warranted''.
Power and access have been restored to Glenorchy and a huge fire largely contained after it razed 150ha of native scrub and closed the road for about 15 hours.
A Scottish tourist has likened the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s "freedom clamping" policy to "terrorism" and says more money should be spent on "accommodating freedom camping" rather than...