A new protection society has been set up in Queenstown amidst growing concerns over a proposed fast-track development at the foothills of Coronet Peak.
Police are moving to confiscate nine houses and apartments in Christchurch, Auckland, Wellington and Queenstown which have been linked to an alleged black market tobacco operation.
The founder of an Arrowtown-based independent advisory company says Queenstown’s in a "spiral dive" at present, and believes a "paradigm shift" is required to get us out of it.
Eighteen months after Health New Zealand — Te Whatu Ora started looking at future options for Queenstown’s Lakes District Hospital, the plan appears no further advanced.
A battle is brewing over plans by Christchurch-based Calendar Girls to open a strip club in Queenstown, with a petition being launched today to stop it setting up.
What started as a two-day festival, with a budget of about $6000 and featuring eight authors, has officially doubled in length and more than tripled in size, with a budget to match.
A petition is being launched today(THURSDAY) to stop the Calendar Girls' opening a Queenstown establishment, understood to be planned for an underground CBD premises in November.