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.
Health New Zealand-Te Whatu Ora is asking people to monitor for signs of the viral illness mpox after contacts of known cases attended Queenstown’s Winter Pride Festival last month.
Anyone who attended the Winter Pride event in Queenstown last month is being warned to watch out for symptoms of mpox because suspected cases of the virus attended the events.
The accuracy of recording noise complaints to Queenstown’s council was questioned during a district licensing committee hearing for the resort’s oldest pub.
Short-term exemptions to the accredited employer work visa (AEWV), announced last Sunday, may provide a Band-Aid to get Queenstown through the next 12 months.
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.