Cooler temperatures and light rain overnight have helped suppress the vegetation fire at Walter Peak, providing firefighters with more favourable conditions as operations continue today. An early ...

Firefighting resumed at Walter Peak at 7am today, with air and ground operations underway. Four helicopters equipped with monsoon buckets are cooling hotspots and dampening the fire perimeter, with a ...

Fire and Emergency is responding to a large vegetation fire at Walter Peak station on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. Two helicopters with monsoon buckets are already at work to protect the Walter Peak ...

Police have paused the search for missing 47-year-old Erika Rodrigues Coelho. This difficult decision follows extensive ...

Youth arrested: breach of bail A local youth was arrested over the weekend after a group of youths were allegedly identified on a private yacht moored in Queenstown Bay. The individual was charged ...

The Lakes Weekly is hand delivered to every business in Queenstown, Arrowtown, Frankton, Five Mile Remarkables Park and Glenda Drive on Tuesday. Copies are available in service stations, libraries and ...

Few people are representing their country in their chosen sport, let alone medalling multiple times, and still working fulltime at almost 80, but Queenstown’s Queen of Waka Ama Francie Piacun is ...

In 1986 Wellington poet Kate Camp kept a diary for a year, the year she turned 14. In that year, her parents divorced, she had sex for the first time and learned to use a microfiche. She’s published ...

The Lakes Weekly is hand delivered to every business in Queenstown, Arrowtown, Frankton, Five Mile Remarkables Park and Glenda Drive on Tuesday. Copies are available in service stations, libraries and ...

When I was playing rugby for the All Blacks, people thought I had everything figured out. But behind closed doors, I was fighting a silent battle with depression. Opening up about my own mental health ...