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    This Queenstown home constructed by Velvin Building has been awarded the supreme house of the...

    Invercargill, Q’town houses win supreme building awards

    A Queenstown home constructed by Velvin Building has been awarded the supreme house of the year over $1 million at the 2025 Southern Master Builders House of the Year awards.

    Urban planning gives town ‘deferential’ treatment

    Arrowtown. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

    Urban planning gives town ‘deferential’ treatment

    An independent commissioner has questioned why Arrowtown should receive special treatment when it comes to the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s proposed urban intensification variation.

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    Conviction for shoplifts avoided

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    Conviction for shoplifts avoided

    A member of the high-profile Thackwray family has avoided a conviction after being caught stealing groceries from a Queenstown supermarket on 15 separate occasions.

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    Minister keeping eye on consent application

    The Queenstown Wastewater Treatment Plant, at Frankton. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

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    Minister keeping eye on consent application

    Environment Minister Penny Simmonds says she is "keeping a watching brief" on the application for treated wastewater being discharged directly into the Shotover River.

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    Released sections sell straight away

    The iconic 'Kingston Flyer' in action. PHOTO: ODT FILES

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    Released sections sell straight away

    Strong demand for sections in the Kingston Village (KVL) residential development continues, with the latest release snapped up in minutes.

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    Resort needs more houses: Willis

    Nicola Willis at a conference earlier this year. PHOTO: ODT FILES

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    Resort needs more houses: Willis

    Finance Minister Nicola Willis says if she was Queenstown Lakes mayor for a day, she would "stare down the Nimbys and say I’d build some homes".

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    Arrowtown may get height reprieve

    Arrowtown, one of Otago's many highly rated scenic spots. Photo: Aaron Ross

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    Arrowtown may get height reprieve

    A Queenstown council planner is recommending proposed new residential height limits be reduced for Arrowtown.

    School’s extraordinary benefactor remembered

    Jack McPherson was flown to Wakatipu High’s Branches Camp in 2022. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    School’s extraordinary benefactor remembered

    Jack McPherson, who has died aged 98, was an extraordinary supporter of Wakatipu High’s outdoor education programme.

    New Gibbston music fest on the way

    Gibbston’s The Church Cellar Door and Cafe will host new music festival The Valley early next...

    New Gibbston music fest on the way

    While Gibbston may have lost the annual Summer Concert Tour, a new music festival is stepping into the breach.

    Arrowtown’s feast finds its feet

    Arrowtown Long Table owners Laura and Campbell Ross, of You Gather Events. PHOTO: ODT FILES

    Arrowtown’s feast finds its feet

    The Arrowtown Long Table is officially back on the calendar.

    Huge honour for WHS head girl

    Young Queenstowner Manuella Sanches Pedrosa. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    Huge honour for WHS head girl

    Wakatipu High’s head girl’s been nationally recognised for being a "local leader and climate change trailblazer".

    Lake showing signs of recovery

    The Friends of Lake Hayes chairman Mike Hanff, with Berti. PHOTO: GUY WILLIAMS

    Lake showing signs of recovery

    Fix the catchment and you’ll fix the lake.

    WHS principal favours open-plan classrooms despite government ban

    PHOTO: ODT FILES

    WHS principal favours open-plan classrooms despite government ban

    Wakatipu High School’s principal is vigorously defending open-plan learning despite the government shutting it down.

    Boarder, 78, still cutting shapes

    Graeme Burgess with his latest snowboard, imported from Slovenia. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER

    Boarder, 78, still cutting shapes

    You won’t find many snowboarders on Queenstown’s ski slopes who took up the sport in the 1980s.

    Trail’s completion ushers in new goal

    The new 48-metre Hugo Bridge, part of Glenorchy’s Buckler Burn Trail. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    Trail’s completion ushers in new goal

    The completion of the Buckler Burn Trail between Glenorchy and the Whākaari Conservation Area will be celebrated by the township’s community next month.

    Arrowtown rink back from the brink

    Bush Creek rink has reopened. PHOTO: JAMES ALLAN PHOTOGRAPHY

    Arrowtown rink back from the brink

    Third time lucky, hopefully.

    Pioneering businesswoman in spotlight

    Former medical doctor and author Lauren Roche, whose historical novel Julia Eichardt will be...

    Pioneering businesswoman in spotlight

    Screeds have been written about Queenstown’s founding fathers, but the township’s pioneering women also have stories worth telling, a new novel’s author says.

    Rare bird in the spotlight

    Conservationist Peter Langlands with an Australasian bittern PICTURE: EMMA WILLIAMS

    Rare bird in the spotlight

    A secretive, critically endangered wetland bird is the subject of the Whakatipu Wildlife Trust’s latest ‘Talk on the Wild Side’.

    Buddying-up programme well supported

    From left, Little Buddy Oscar Cunningham, 9, and his Big Buddy Luke Houghton, and Little Buddy...

    Buddying-up programme well supported

    Little and big buddies have been buddying-up in Queenstown for 24 years.

    Kinross hosting ‘king of noir’

    Delaney Davidson. PHOTO: SABIN HOLLOWAY

    Kinross hosting ‘king of noir’

    Fifteen years after releasing his first album, celebrated Kiwi songwriter Delaney Davidson’s preparing to perform a rocking collection of bangers at Gibbston’s Kinross this Saturday night.
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