Queenstown

Book reaches new heights

Guillaume Charton with his latest guidebook. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER

Book reaches new heights

Queenstown Climbing Club’s president’s released a fourth but all-new edition of his climbers’ bible, Queenstown Rock, Ice, Boulders & Mountains.

Helping Queenstown’s ‘forgotten cousin’

Helping Queenstown’s ‘forgotten cousin’

Queenstown-based physiotherapist Jordan Powell’s just changed the game for Glenorchy.

New president set to pad up

New Queenstown Cricket Club president Fraser Wilson. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER

New president set to pad up

Queenstown Cricket Club’s new president admits he’s got "pretty big shoes to fill" taking over from Daniel Gibbons, who’s declared his innings closed after seven years.

A hole lot of fundraising

Preparing to play 72 holes of golf this coming Monday are Team Queenstown’s Yoonae Jeong, Liam...

A hole lot of fundraising

Participating this coming Monday in a Cancer Society golf endurance fundraiser, The Longest Day, is a Queenstown team including highly-promising 16-year-olds Yoonae Jeong and Ricky Kang.

Providing opportunities for MTB tyros

Providing opportunities for MTB tyros

Some of the country’s most talented downhill mountain bikers will descend on the Queenstown-Lakes over the next two weekends, during the final races of the 2024 Southern DH Series.

Women’s disc golf takes flight at Gardens

Queenstown Disc Golf Ladies League founders Jessie Reynolds, left, and Alexa Macdonald. PHOTO:...

Women’s disc golf takes flight at Gardens

Two Queenstowners have established a ladies’ disc golf league to encourage more women to give the sport a go.

Landbanker buys prime corner site

Adjacent properties around the corner from Queenstown’s CBD. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Landbanker buys prime corner site

An overseas buyer’s spent more than $4million to landbank two jointly-owned properties fringing Queenstown’s CBD.

Expat buyers’ local matchmaker

Buyers’ agent Jo Eddington. PHOTO: PHILIP CHANDLER

Expat buyers’ local matchmaker

Arrowtown's first buyers’ agent says there’s keen interest from expat Kiwis in buying properties in the Queenstown-Lakes region they can live in when they decide to return home.

Prosecution considered over Q’town wastewater plant

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

Prosecution considered over Q’town wastewater plant

Prosecution is being considered for incidents at a faltering wastewater plant at Shotover in Queenstown, although latest testing shows disposal field samples were within allowable limits.

Prison sentence narrowly avoided for series of assaults

Prison sentence narrowly avoided for series of assaults

A Fijian man has avoided a prison sentence for a series of alcohol-fuelled assaults in Cromwell and Queenstown.

Home detention for dealing

Police have busted a Queenstown man for drug dealing after being called to a family-harm incident involving his only customers.

8-times-limit driver seen ‘stumbling’

A Queenstown man has earned the dubious distinction of recording the highest breath alcohol level seen in Otago and Southland for at least six years.

Cave location important: promoter

Cave location important: promoter

Positioning a proposed purpose-built glow-worm cave within a commercial or urban Queenstown setting would turn it into a "theme park-style attraction," contradicting the resort’s unique identity...

Person 'critical' after 12m fall in Queenstown

A person has been flown to hospital in a critical condition after falling 12 metres from a retaining wall in Queenstown, emergency services say.

Santa kept busy visiting Christmas events

Santa Claus managed to fit in a quick visit to Queenstown yesterday, where he appeared on stage...

Santa kept busy visiting Christmas events

Santa was a very busy man across the South yesterday.

Charter-school funding won’t affect any new high school

Act New Zealand leader David Seymour. File photo

Charter-school funding won’t affect any new high school

Queenstown's option for an additional secondary school has not been affected by Associate Education Minister David Seymour’s announcement this week.

Businesses subject to MBIE action

Two Queenstown hospitality businesses are the subject of "enforcement action" by the Ministry of Business, Employment and Innovation’s (MBIE) Labour Inspectorate, following an operation in the...