Guy Williams

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.

More details have emerged of a twin-hotel development in Queenstown's Gorge Rd that will add 437 rooms to the resort's accommodation capacity.

Swiss-Belhotel International has announced it will open two new hotels in Queenstown late next year.

An Australian man failed to pay for a taxi ride, then went to sleep in the wrong house.

The subdivision of a high-profile Gibbston valley site looks set to proceed after a "somewhat unusual" Environment Court decision.

Otago regional councillor Michael Laws says the smell from a landfill near Gibbston is another example of his organisation sitting on its hands over consent breaches.

A Queenstown builder and his mate were not wearing seatbelts when their ute veered off the road and plunged 25m down a bank in Kelvin Heights.

Gibbston residents are being assailed by the smell of the dump again, and they are not happy about it.

A high-powered Auckland accountant who assaulted his wife in the bedroom of their Central Otago home has been denied a discharge without conviction.

Three years after nearly losing its accreditation to issue building consents, the Queenstown Lakes District Council's building consents team's performance has improved out of sight, its manager says.

After 10 days of painstaking effort, an intricately made art work of coloured sand was ritually destroyed in Queenstown yesterday.

It has been a mixed bag on Queenstown's skifields so far, so it is hardly surprising the same is holding true for some resort businesses.