Tracey Roxburgh

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Queenstown Bureau Chief at Otago Daily Times

Otago Daily Times - Queenstown & Queenstown Times bureau chief

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Q’town plea to avoid gridlock

6 days ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownStark warnings about looming gridlock in Queenstown have sparked pleas for urgent investment in public transport. The 14km drive from the outskirts of town to the CBD is forecast to take an hour at peak times within the next three years.
Top teams gear up for ice war

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

Saturday, 31 May 2025 You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownThere was a risk Friday night’s game between the SkyCity Stampede and Auckland Mako development ice hockey teams was going to end up with a cricket score.
Hospo industry recognised

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

The best of Queenstown hospo will find out next month if they’re the best in the country. Three hotels, a restaurant, cafe, bar, two suppliers and a manager have been named as finalists in this year’s Hospitality New Zealand Awards for Excellence, being announced during the HNZ25 conference, in Wellington, on June 10 and 11.
Qantas ups summer flights to Queenstown

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownIs this good news or bad? More Australians are heading our way — crossing the magic million mark, as tourists from across the Ditch head to Queenstown. Qantas yesterday announced five additional flights from Australia into Queenstown over summer. That should push the number of Australian visitors to the resort for the year over the million mark.
Thousands seek bargains at club’s ski sale

1 week ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownAs excitement builds for this year’s ski season, thousands of people spent yesterday morning patiently waiting in a queue in Queenstown hoping to get their hands on some bargains. Whakatipu Ski Club chief paper pusher Sharla Franklin said the club’s annual sale dated back to at least the 1990s — it was the club’s only fundraiser for the year.
Building projects nationally recognised

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownQueenstown building companies have this week been recognised on the national stage for local projects. Cook Brothers Construction, Naylor Love Central Otago and Lakes Building Co have all been honoured at the New Zealand Commercial Project Awards, which recognise the contribution of entire project teams.
Life’s a stage for Queenstown teacher

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

One of Showbiz Queenstown’s newest cast members has been wowing audiences over the past week as the jaunty ‘Cinderella’s Prince’, but as Tracey Roxburgh discovers, Ben Wombwell’s no stranger to the stage — or screen. Till last week, Ben Wombwell may have flown under Queenstown’s radar, but the Queenstown Primary teacher’s been making headlines for years.
Stampede reset after shock loss

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownThe SkyCity Stampede ice hockey team may have just had a taste of this year’s finals series. Playing against a transformed Phoenix Thunder, in Dunedin, the Stampede put the home team away on Friday night, 5-2 — a score made even more impressive given goaltender Aston Brookes faced 43 shots on goal. "He was unreal," coach Cam Frear says. "He kept us in the game.
Free self-testing HIV kits available

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

You are not permitted to download, save or email this image. Visit image gallery to purchase the image. RegionsQueenstownQueenstowners now have access to free HIV home test kits, thanks to a new vending machine installed at The Doctors Whakatipu. The machine’s been installed by the Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, which has been at the forefront of the community response to HIV and AIDS in New Zealand for almost 40 years, and has a goal to end HIV transmission in this country by2030.
Pair set on pursuing glowworm cave project

2 weeks ago | odt.co.nz | Tracey Roxburgh

Two Queenstown-based influencers are vowing to continue their fight to establish a purpose-built glowworm cave near the resort’s CBD. Topher Richwhite and Bridget Thackwray, through their company Faraway Entertainment Ltd, applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council in 2023 to establish and operate what they said was New Zealand’s first sustainable glowworm experience, "Eco-Cave", planned on a 119ha site off Gorge Rd, part of which forms the Queenstown Adventure Park.