Guy Williams

An ability to identify flags of the world was the common denominator for the winning teams at the Otago Daily Times Extra! current events quiz for Central Otago yesterday.

An Australian man who asked his friend to shoot him with an air gun is refusing to identify the other man.

Ski tourers could be gliding along a new route between Coronet Peak and Treble Cone skifields by next winter.

Police have slammed the behaviour of an Australian man as "moronic" after he asked his friend to shoot him with an air rifle because he wanted to know how painful it would be.

The stink from a landfill near Gibbston could be remedied by a gas capture and destruction system.

A simple business philosophy and looking after his employees have taken Sir John Davies a long way in the past 50 years.

Licence to occupy agreements for retirement villages can be so complex, even specialist lawyers cannot understand them.

A judge has thrown out charges against an Arrowtown accountant suspected of drink driving because police did not have the authority to enter his property.

A proposal for Queenstown's Mt Dewar Station billed as the country's largest commercially funded native reforestation project should be rejected, a council planning report recommends.

A traffic hold-up caused by a broken-down truck on the Kingston road led to the apprehension of a disqualified driver yesterday.

Two Australian brothers ended up in hospital after one glassed the other in a Queenstown bar last night.

A Queenstown builder has been jailed for five years for sexually assaulting a woman in the resort in 2017.

The Otago Regional Council is seeking public opinion on how to restore the health of Lake Hayes.

A man is in custody after allegedly threatening to burn down a Queenstown backpacker hostel this morning.

The launch of 5G in Queenstown opens the door to the world for the resort's tech innovators, Startup Queenstown Lakes chief executive James Burnes says.

A German woman seriously injured in a Queenstown crash four months ago is a ''fighter'', her mother says.