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Toxic algae bloom warning signs are in place at Butchers Dam, about 8km from Alexandra, advising people to keep away from the water as the first toxic algae bloom of the season was seen.

For its fifth consecutive year, the Hāwea Christmas Wonderland returns with a display the organisers say is their most ambitious display yet.

Maude Wines winemakers Sarah-Kate and Dan Dineen have won three awards, including Winemakers of the Show, at the 2023 National Wine Awards Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Wānaka ultra-distance runner Mal Law is launching his first edition of  "The Wild", a multiday festival of trail running and other activities in Arrowtown from December 6-10. 

Luggate Community Association chairman Rod Anderson wants a review of the timeframe for commissioning the town’s new water supply and is urging the Queenstown Lakes District Council: "let’s get it...

Six Silver Ghosts rolled into Wānaka last Sunday at the end of a traverse of three alpine passes between the South Island’s east coast and the Southern Alps.

Bike Wānaka is lobbying for Peninsula Bay’s informal mountainbike trails to be kept for bikers only.

Wānaka teenager Toby Mills has successfully encouraged his school, Te Kura o Tititea Mount Aspiring College (MAC), to improve campus accessibility.

GOLFMount Aspiring College golfers Zac McIntyre, Raphael Anderson, Lucas Nichol and Jordy Cameron won the Otago Intermediate Schools Golf Championship earlier this month. Thirty-eight teams ...