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Development may include Catholic church, primary school

Pupils, teachers and parishioners celebrate Queenstown’s St Joseph’s School’s 140th anniversary...

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Development may include Catholic church, primary school

Queenstown's Ladies Mile development, approved by the government, may include a Roman Catholic church and Catholic primary school.

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Agreement kept secret by councils

The Shotover wastewater treatment plant. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery

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Agreement kept secret by councils

An agreement has been reached in the Environment Court around the faltering Shotover wastewater treatment plant, but both sides are keeping it under wraps.

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Thrown glass hit young woman’s face

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Thrown glass hit young woman’s face

A young Dutchman who threw a glass in a Queenstown bar that hit a young woman’s face says being stuck in New Zealand is "heavy punishment".

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Transport solutions wanted in reserve plans

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Transport solutions wanted in reserve plans

Submitters have urged the Queenstown Lakes District Council to think about the future of two Queenstown reserves, and factor in potential transport solutions to its reserve management plans.

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Swimmers should be wary in parts of river: report

Contractors monitoring water quality near the wastewater discharge site on the Shotover River....

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Swimmers should be wary in parts of river: report

Swimmers should be wary of taking a dip where wastewater flows into a Queenstown river, a council-commissioned report indicates.

Gorge Rd to be closed for a fourth time

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

Gorge Rd to be closed for a fourth time

The Whakatipu Transport Programme Alliance will return to Queenstown’s Gorge Rd this month to adjust a wastewater pipe laid just over 18 months ago.

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Distribution to hotel creditors considered ‘unlikely’

Millions of dollars are owed to creditors on the boutique Carlin Hotel, which is in receivership....

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Distribution to hotel creditors considered ‘unlikely’

Liquidators appointed to a luxury Queenstown hotel consider a distribution to creditors is "unlikely".

House 'extensively damaged' in Queenstown blaze

A fire appliance at the scene of the blaze. Photo: Tracey Roxburgh

House 'extensively damaged' in Queenstown blaze

Fire crews have contained a blaze that has left a home "extensively damaged" in Queenstown this afternoon.

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Big plans for Events Centre

View over Queenstown, with the Kelvin Peninsula and Kelvin Heights in the centre background....

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Big plans for Events Centre

The Queenstown Events Centre is about to be super-sized.

Plans for 100 units above retail precinct

Of 100 one-bedroom residential units proposed at The Crest, 86 are slated to be A-frames. PHOTO:...

Plans for 100 units above retail precinct

Queenstown developer Kurt Gibbons is planning to build another 100 one-bedroom residential units — 86 of them A-frames — on land above the Country Lane retail precinct.

Best wastewater disposal option will emerge — Smith

Acting mayor Quentin Smith. PHOTO: ARCHIVE

Best wastewater disposal option will emerge — Smith

Acting Queenstown mayor Quentin Smith expects a compelling long-term option for disposing of the resort’s wastewater is likely to emerge in the coming months.

Wakatipu High School runner-up among public co-eds

Wakatipu High principal Oded Nathan. PHOTO: ARCHIVE

Wakatipu High School runner-up among public co-eds

It's no wonder Wakatipu High School principal Oded Nathan’s smile is so wide.

Celebrating A’town’s ‘Unsung Hero’

Arrowtown Preschool head teacher Jane Foster, surrounded by some of her charges, who was last...

Celebrating A’town’s ‘Unsung Hero’

Long-serving Arrowtown Community Preschool manager Jane Foster thought she was going for a quiet dinner at the New Orleans last week.

The cat comes back — eventually

Deborah Coburn pictured with her cat, Lucy, who’s seemingly splitting her year with another local...

The cat comes back — eventually

Queenstowner Deborah Coburn’s hoping there’s another family who might help her solve the mystery of her meandering moggy, Lucy.

He put the ‘Mac’ into Mactodd

Alan Macalister’s practised law in Queenstown for 50 years, if in a more limited role of late....

He put the ‘Mac’ into Mactodd

Fifty years ago, Alan Macalister became just Queenstown’s third full-time lawyer when he started what’s today the resort’s largest locally owned law firm, Mactodd.

Local creatives impress judges

Hazel Alviola’s winning photo of Macetown’s Needhams Cottage. PHOTO: HAZEL ALVIOLA

Local creatives impress judges

The winner of the biennial Arrowtown Photography Competition, held as part of this year’s Arrowtown Autumn Festival, only started properly snapping last year.