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There’s growing frustration in local health circles with no firm decisions being made on the future use of the current 34-bed Lake Wakatipu Care Centre rest-home located next to the Lakes District Hospital, which will be vacated later this year.

The first few days of a week-long trial closing off traffic to Arrowtown’s quaint main street Buckingham Street and prioritising greater pedestrian use have drawn a mixed, in some cases strong, response.

Arrowtown’s own hometown, folk, ‘alt country’ style songwriter Holly Arrowsmith is still making powerful music waves with her single Desert Dove, now named one of just four finalists for Best Country Music Song in New Zealand’s top country awards Country Music Honours.

She’s been the bright and shining frontline star of Queenstown’s tourism industry for 65 years, greeting visitors from around the world with her unique effervescence and style.

Queenstown's latest stunning bike trail is set to open on 25 May.

Three recent major announcements from the Government are particularly positive for Queenstown and demonstrate our focus on delivering the change our community needs.

Sustainable Queenstown’s first ever Refashion event last month had audiences asking for bigger, better, more!

Cancer is a sneaky beast but every year (in fact it seems like every week at the moment!) treatments get more effective and less toxic.

It feels as if I’m sending my column in every day but apparently it’s only every week - I guess it’s old age making me think life is flying past far too fast.

We firmly believe in the benefits of our young people engaging in the arts.

Frankton Food Rescue Riders may sound like the latest action movie heroes, and well, they are, but theirs is a much more vital role.

Three Gen-Z teenage digital natives with a passion to enlighten the older generation on all things tech are launching a series of free weekly workshops for the tech-illiterate at Frankton from March 13.

Sustainable Queenstown’s Slow Fashion Campaign is back!

Renowned Queenstown sports chiropractor Neki Patel is now one of just nine chiropractors worldwide to sit on the International Federation of Sports Chiropractic (FICS) executive board and heads to a three-day board meeting in Portugal this July.

Southland on the move – Infrastructure and resource management in the fast lane

The NZOpen is here again and the very best thing about it is that we can have yoga on the lawn tennis courts at Millbrook instead of in the cramped little fitness room.

As part of the Aotearoa Bike Challenge, Queenstown women have been telling us why they’re on their bikes.

Between them they can boast an impressive line-up of academic, sporting, cultural and humanitarian abilities and accomplishments, but they’re a humble bunch too, so Wakatipu High School’s five new student leaders are instead focused on everybody else.

It’s been my experience in my more than two decades of volunteering, that if you are feeling stuck, underappreciated, or have been told you are not ready to lead that big project or land that coveted promotion at work, it’s time to look outside of your role.