A Queenstown hotelier concerned houses going on to Airbnb are destroying the residential rental market believes the new government can solve the problem with one quick stroke of the pen.
When, more than 50 years ago, the then-Queenstown borough council couldn’t fund vital infrastructure — sound familiar? — mayor Warren Cooper halted permits for major building projects.
Excitement is mounting over an exhibition encapsulating the history of New Zealand art which opens tomorrow at Arrowtown’s Lakes District Museum gallery.
New Tourism Minister Matt Doocey’s not on board with a plan to ban fixed-wing aircraft at Milford Sound — news which has delighted Queenstown’s flightseeing operators.
Following spirited bidding by two locals, a 673sq m section at the end of Queenstown’s Kelvin Peninsula sold at auction last Thursday for $1.94 million.
Queenstowner Sumin Kang, Otago’s top female golfer for about five years, is getting some major overseas opportunities this year, starting in Thailand today.
Ask tech entrepreneur Roger Sharp why he’s founded tech development agency Technology Queenstown (TQ) and he harks back to Covid — and how the resort’s reliance on tourism made us so vulnerable.
Described as an ‘art crawl’, Queenstown CBD art event First Thursdays Quarterly — now run every three months — returns tonight across six galleries between Earl St and Marine Parade.
Climbing Africa’s highest mountain and cricket mightn’t appear to have much in common, but Queenstown lawyer Russell Mawhinney’s making a link late next month.