Guy Williams

 Glenorchy residents remain nervous about the dangers of visitors swimming near the Rees River mouth since two drownings within a week last year, a community leader says.

A prominent Queenstown farming family’s rezoning bid for a luxury housing development has been reined in by an Environment Court decision.

An intoxicated chef who left a trail of destruction in a fast-food restaurant’s drive-through has been refused a discharge without conviction.

A Cromwell man without a firearms licence was found with an illegally stored rifle and ammunition when police searched his home for cannabis.

A recidivist drink-driver who crashed his vehicle into a car driven by a pregnant woman near Lake Hayes has failed in a bid to overturn his prison sentence.

Two workmates who assaulted a Queenstown man outside his home in the middle of the night were "hyped up, fuelled by alcohol and out to cause trouble", a judge says.

A Queenstown company director charged with multiple drug dealing offences has had his name suppressed.

The last man standing after a failed retirement village development in Wānaka must repay the project’s financier $3.4 million after losing a court appeal.

A Queenstown man who supplied an estimated $24,000 of cannabis to associates in the resort town is no "Mr Asia", his lawyer says.

Two light-fingered Canadians have blamed Queenstown’s cost of living for their thievery.

Two light-fingered Canadians have blamed Queenstown’s cost of living for their thievery.

A Queenstown man caught drink-driving in his landlord’s vehicle while serving an alcohol interlock sentence told police he did not know it was illegal because he "does not study the law".

A son of Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan says he has no excuses after being caught drink-driving a second time.

A Lake Hawea man who drove away from an alcohol checkpoint must pay nearly $2000 in fines and court costs.