Queenstown Lakes News

A big Samoan man from Wellington called Ben has two ''skinny white boys'' to thank for surviving the Clutha River.

Dr Barbara Anderson is a scientist who makes no bones about climate change.

Queenstown's Carey Vivian is about to mountain bike the length of the country to try to raise $50,000 for motor neurone disease (MND) sufferers.

Police have recovered a body believed to be that of missing Wellington tramper Scott (Brock) Oliver from alongside the Wilkin River in Mt Aspiring National Park west of Makarora.

An outdoor concert is planned as part of the upcoming inaugural New Zealand Rural Games, being held in Queenstown over Waitangi Weekend.

The body of a well-regarded music journalist who went missing while tramping in Mount Aspiring National Park has been found.

A search and rescue operation is underway near Queenstown after a German tourist failed to return a locator beacon by his "panic date".

A north Island man in his 30s nearly drowned in the Clutha River at Albert Town yesterday afternoon.