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    $5m rural retreat gets new owners

    Willowbrook has new owners for the first time in nearly 30 years. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    $5m rural retreat gets new owners

    An Arrowtown couple have bought a nearby rural accommodation property, based around a restored 1914 homestead, with plans to upscale it.

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    Hotel snaps up Queenstown church for $13m

    This prominent, decommissioned church has been bought by a hotel company which owns two...

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    Hotel snaps up Queenstown church for $13m

    The purchaser of Queenstown’s St Andrew’s Church — on a landmark Stanley St site, just above the CBD — is Scenic Hotel Group.

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    Sporting interest their secret

    Arrowtown couple Graeme and Jenni Heazlewood today celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary....

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    Sporting interest their secret

    Arrowtown couple Jenni and Graeme Heazlewood are celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary with family today.

    Queenstown measles case has links across South

    Photo: Supplied/US CDC

    Queenstown measles case has links across South

    A new measles case in Queenstown connected to more than 20 exposure events in the South is concerning health authorities.

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    Family battles Department of Conservation over ‘iconic’ crib

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    Family battles Department of Conservation over ‘iconic’ crib

    A family who own an old Kinloch crib, which features in a soon-to-be-released Brad Pitt movie, has won support to keep the 87-year-old "absolutely iconic" structure.

    Queenstown woman recounts Bondi shooting terror

    Mark Blundell, Donna Corbel, Tahlia Blundell and Jake Blundell, pictured during an earlier trip...

    'Just running for our lives': Queenstown woman recounts Bondi shooting terror

    A Queenstown woman caught up in the mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach says her family are still very much on edge the day after the tragedy.

    ‘I’ve gone down wrong track’: drug dealer

    Queenstown Courthouse. Photo supplied

    ‘I’ve gone down wrong track’: drug dealer

    A man deported from Australia for criminal offending says he started dealing drugs in Queenstown because he struggled to find work.

    Question over future of golf centre gutted in accidental blaze

    Queenstown Lakes District Council sport and recreation manager, and acting community services...

    Question over future of golf centre gutted in accidental blaze

    It is too soon to say whether a Queenstown golf centre gutted in an accidental blaze will be demolished or rebuilt.

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    Trail design to start after consent issued

    Part of Queenstown's network of biking trails. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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    Trail design to start after consent issued

    Designing a new bike and walking trail between Queenstown’s southern suburbs and Frankton will start immediately now resource consent has been granted for its main section between the Kawarau Falls...

    One family, two heads

    2023 head student Annika Thornton and her brother, 2025 head student, McKellar Thornton. PHOTO:...

    One family, two heads

    It's rare for two high school head students to come from one family.

    Top-of-the-range subdivision hits the market

    An artist’s impression of what Karamata Peak could look like. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

    Top-of-the-range subdivision hits the market

    Expressions of interest are being sought for the first 23 sections in a pre-eminently-positioned luxury enclave atop Queenstown Hill.

    Kōhanga dream taking shape

    Among the Te Puna Ako o Tahuna playgroup children who will become kōhanga reo students next year...

    Kōhanga dream taking shape

    A group of parents working to establish the Whakatipu’s first kōhanga reo in decades has started a fundraising drive to fit out its building.

    New Zealand reps at home in Arrowtown

    Sporting internationals Polly and Hugo Inglis always relish returning to Arrowtown. PHOTO: PHILIP...

    New Zealand reps at home in Arrowtown

    Arrowtown is the second home to two siblings who’ve both played international sport.

    Fire guts Frankton golf building

    Fire guts Frankton golf building

    A fire that has gutted the Frankton Golf Centre building is being investigated.

    Saved boy, so ‘died for his love of living’: fiancee

    Lake Wakatipu. PHOTO: ODT FILES

    Saved boy, so ‘died for his love of living’: fiancee

    The fiancee of an Australian man who "gave away his life" for a young boy "to continue on living" said it was her truest honour to receive a New Zealand Bravery Award on his behalf.

    Queenstown school bus decision in ‘near future’

    This is what 120 or so pupils waiting for Fernhill and Sunshine Bay public buses would look like...

    Queenstown school bus decision in ‘near future’

    A decision on the proposed axing of nine Whakatipu school bus services is due "in the near future".

    Queenstown hotel's $30m five star makeover

    The new Coronet Ridge Resort will be barely recognised as the former Nugget Point Hotel. PHOTO:...

    Queenstown hotel's $30m five star makeover

    The former Nugget Point Hotel, a modern resort when it opened in the late ’80s, is about to start a new life as the five star-plus Coronet Ridge Resort.

    Companies fined for role in landslip

    The aftermath of a landslip which covered part of a Queenstown cemetery in September 2023. PHOTO:...

    Companies fined for role in landslip

    The three companies responsible for a landslip near Queenstown’s Skyline gondola in 2023 must pay more than $700,000 in fines and reparation for their role in the calamity.

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    Judge gives mother ultimatum

    Queenstown Courthouse. Photo supplied

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    Judge gives mother ultimatum

    A Kingston mother of five with a history of dishonesty offending has narrowly escaped prison.

    'Highly careless': Companies fined over role in Queenstown slip

    Slip debris covers Reavers Lane in Queenstown after heavy rains. Photo: RNZ

    'Highly careless': Companies fined over role in Queenstown slip

    A major Queenstown tourism operator and two contractors have been sentenced for contributing to a landslip that inundated a residential street, forcing dozens of evacuations during record rainfall.
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