Lucy Wormald

Increases to climate change and workforce review budgets have pushed the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s rates rise to 6.5%, up from the previously proposed 5.96%.

Festooned with string lights and stirred by the sound of karakia, Arrowtown’s main drag was filled with harikoa (good cheer) as the inaugural Matariki Arrowtown Lights Festival began yesterday.

There's no business like snow business, especially when it snows.