Guy Williams

A court order will allow a prominent Wanaka aviation family to continue using its barge in a remote Fiordland sound for commercial purposes, but has clipped its wings in the process.

A Queenstown woman caught at nearly six times the legal alcohol limit while driving told police she had drunk two bottles of bubbly the night before.

A woman who came to Queenstown for her trial for assault is facing two new charges after allegedly committing another assault on the morning of the trial.

A  Wānaka couple’s shoplifting spree was driven by financial "desperation" following a family dispute, a lawyer says.

A rental property manager stole more than $9000 from her Alexandra employer over two years before her offending came to light.

A pharmacist who stole codeine tablets from her Alexandra workplace has put her career in jeopardy.

A Lawrence woman caught drink-driving for the 13th time told police she was driving erratically because she was watching a livestream of her partner competing in a shearing competition.

A newly released court decision has given a glimpse inside a bitter dispute between the business partners — and former friends — of Arrowtown’s New Orleans Hotel.

More charges have been laid against two Cromwell men arrested as part of a police operation targeting drug cultivation and dealing in the south.

Two Roxburgh men have been sentenced to community detention after they were caught red-handed while hunting unlawfully near Lawrence.

The trial of NZSki over the death of Anita Graf at Coronet Peak in 2019 took a surprising turn yesterday when the skifield owner applied for the charge to be thrown out.

An Alexandra man with a history of "obscene exposure" has struck again, surprising a funeral home worker out picking flowers.

A man who led police on a slow-speed chase near Queenstown while high on meth has been sentenced to prison.

Members of the public should be able to go grocery shopping on a Sunday without being confronted by someone brandishing a "huge" knife.

The brother of a former prime minister has failed in a multimillion-dollar claim for a share of profits from an upmarket Queenstown subdivision.

A $5.5 million claim over leaking bathrooms at the Hilton hotel is one of five unresolved water-tightness claims, totalling $12.9m, for which Queenstown Lakes ratepayers are in the gun.

A former top Queenstown downhill mountain biker has avoided a conviction for drink-driving.