A conference industry executive has hit back at Health Minister Chris Hipkins’ suggestions Aucklanders should not be going to Queenstown for business conferences.
A Queenstown event production company may be in survival mode, but permanently closing the doors will never be an option, TomTom productions managing director Hamish Edh says.
Anyone planning on doing a burn-off in Otago in the next few days is being asked to hold off until at least Tuesday, Fire and Emergency New Zealand says.
Twenty-five percent of renters in the Queenstown Lakes district are dissatisfied with the warmth and dryness of their current housing, a new study has found.