Queenstown Lakes mayor Jim Boult has reiterated the proposed visitor levy remains on hold and there is "no intention" of introducing any such measure until "normal trading conditions" returned.
Twenty-four years to the day after Kate Pirovano graduated from the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua, the Queenstown sergeant is hanging up her hat.
Preparatory work is progressing on Skyline Enterprises’ multimillion-dollar Queenstown gondola redevelopment, the tender for which may go out in the first quarter of next year.
Police are reminding Queenstown residents to lock their cars, and secure valuables, after a string of thefts and one break-in over the last couple of weeks.
A man had meth and cannabis in his system and had driven close to 1500km in less than 48 hours when he crashed after failing to see a stop sign in Geraldine, leaving a woman with serious head injuries.
She cannot legally drive a car yet, but that did not stop a Queenstown teenager spending Saturday tearing up Coronet Peak’s access road in her first motorsport event.
Queenstown Primary School pupils celebrated their diversity yesterday at the school’s annual International Day, organised by the school’s international ambassadors.
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult has labelled a move by Christchurch City Council to profit from the district a "predatory activity" designed, he says, to attack the value of Queenstown Airport.