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    Turning the first sod at the Lakeview site yesterday are (from left) Queenstown Lakes District...

    Physical work set to start on Lakeview Te Taumata project

    After more than six years of planning, physical work is about to start on Queenstown’s $3billion Lakeview Te Taumata project.

    QLDC initiates road safety video for international tourists

    QLDC initiates road safety video for international tourists

    Queenstown Lakes District Council has teamed up with local police to create videos for tourists promoting safe driving in the region.

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    $400m airport to CBD cable car route revealed

    An artist’s impression of the proposed Queenstown cable car station in Frankton. Image: Southern...

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    $400m airport to CBD cable car route revealed

    The planned route of a billionaire-backed cable car linking Queenstown Airport to the town’s CBD has been revealed.

    Boat gets into difficulty

    PHOTO: ODT FILES

    Boat gets into difficulty

    Two people got into trouble in a small boat on Lake Wakatipu last night.

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    Queenstown teen's eye socket shattered in assault

    Queenstown Courthouse. Photo supplied

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    Queenstown teen's eye socket shattered in assault

    A Fijian teenager who shattered the eye socket of a Queenstown high school student with multiple punches could be deported.

    Luxury watch nicked in Queenstown turns up in Rotorua

    The stolen items included a Cartier watch. File photo: Getty Images

    Luxury watch nicked in Queenstown turns up in Rotorua

    A handbag stolen from a Queenstown park containing goods worth $34,000 including a luxury watch has been recovered from a property in Rotorua.

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    Date set for lakefront stall bylaw plan

    The latest rating valuations for the Whakatipu, based on a property’s likely sale price last...

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    Date set for lakefront stall bylaw plan

    The fate of Queenstown’s lakeside vendors could be decided next month.

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    Tributes fly for outgoing QLDC chief executive Theelen

    Mike Theelen. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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    Tributes fly for outgoing QLDC chief executive Theelen

    Ten years, four mayors and 124 council meetings.

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    Food, music key features

    The Ngā Ara Wai kapa haka group, consisting of high school students from the Queenstown Lakes and...

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    Food, music key features

    Food, music and fun were the key features of Queenstown’s community Waitangi Day celebration at Te Kararo Queenstown Gardens yesterday.

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    Electric ferry hoped to ease congestion

    An electric hydrofoil passenger vessel, Vessev VS-9, is trialled on Lake Wakatipu. Photo:...

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    Electric ferry hoped to ease congestion

    An electric hydrofoil ferrying passengers on Lake Wakatipu could take pressure off congested Queenstown roads, the backers of a new trial say.

    Native birds on the rise as possum numbers drop

    The number of native birds, including tūī , is on the rise around the Wakatipu, thanks to the...

    Native birds on the rise as possum numbers drop

    Possums are losing their grip near Arrowtown and native bird numbers are on the rise.

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    Be mindful of attitude to alcohol, driver told

    Photo: file

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    Be mindful of attitude to alcohol, driver told

    A 23-year-old Queenstown builder caught driving nearly five times the alcohol limit in Frankton Rd had already been fined twice for drink-driving.

    Queenstown hospitality portfolio bought

    Photo: Getty Images

    Queenstown hospitality portfolio bought

    A major Australian hospitality group has just snapped up one of Queenstown’s biggest portfolios.

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    ‘We should treasure’ NZ ski racer

    Star alpine ski racer Alice Robinson (left) and FIS Council member Fiona Stevens, of Auckland,...

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    ‘We should treasure’ NZ ski racer

    However Alice Robinson performs at these upcoming Winter Olympics, we should be proud.

    Mixed response to Queenstown variation approval

    Queenstown tenants have plenty more options to choose from. Photo: ODT files

    Mixed response to Queenstown variation approval

    A government-mandated district plan variation aimed at enabling denser, more affordable housing in the Queenstown Lakes district’s urban areas has been approved.

    Trumpeter hitting all the right notes

    Ollie Sharpe at his Jillian Jardine Trophy presentation with, from left, Turn up The Music...

    Trumpeter hitting all the right notes

    A very promising Queenstown trumpeter has won the prestigious Jillian Jardine Trophy which Turn Up the Music (TuM) school presents to a talented young musician each year.

    Q’town youngster has green fingers

    Cream of the crop: Fork and Tap spud-growing comp winners, from left, Aaron Simpson, Johnny...

    Q’town youngster has green fingers

    He's not even 10, yet Queenstown’s Johnny Frisby’s now won the ‘most spuds’ category in Arrowtown’s Fork and Tap spud-growing comp two years running.

    NZ reps impress

    NZ reps impress

    Two rained-out games hog-tied New Zealand’s prospects at last month’s under-19 Cricket World Cup in Zimbabwe, but Queenstown’s two reps still made useful contributions.

    Wine posts winning posts?

    Treated timber posts (pictured) predominate throughout Gibbston’s established vineyards, but...

    Wine posts winning posts?

    Despite the preponderance of copper chromium arsenic (CCA) treated timber wine posts in vineyards throughout Queenstown’s Gibbston — and elsewhere in New Zealand — industry experts play down any...

    Back road bus on course

    Back road bus on course

    Though the seven-month-old Malaghans Rd ‘back road’ bus service between Queenstown’s CBD and Arrowtown is still only a trial, it’s ‘‘performing well’’, Otago Regional Council (ORC) states.
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