New connections to Queenstown’s troubled Shotover wastewater treatment plant should be paused until issues with its disposal system can be addressed, the deputy mayor says.
Queenstown Lakes District Mayor Glyn Lewers believes lobbying by Local Government New Zealand for International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy funding to be shared with local councils is outside its remit.
Effluent could have been leaching into two Queenstown rivers late last year, it has emerged as more details are released about an investigation into a troubled wastewater plant.
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi says they’re working closely with social services and locals to support a well-known Queenstowner whose home was chopped down yesterday.
Fifty-seven years after taking up mountaineering in his native Britain, Queenstowner-turned-Arrowtowner Brian Hall is still climbing. He tells Philip Chandler why he gave up full-blooded...
As it approaches its third birthday, Queenstown’s arts and cultural centre has launched a patrons’ programme, providing the community an opportunity to invest in its future.
An uber-talented Queenstown muso best known for his energetic saxophone busking on the CBD waterfront is about to record his songs with a view to then touring the world with them.
The Otago Regional Council is yet to get analysed data of the air quality in Queenstown on Tuesday afternoon when two burnoffs south of resort blanketed the Basin in smoke.