Guy Williams

A Nissan Terrano drove through a playground, down some steps and across a field while being pursued by police through Queenstown and Frankton yesterday.

A start to building a new lookout beside scenic Glenorchy Queenstown Rd has been delayed until early next year.

A Queenstown lawyer has received his second conviction for driving offences in the space of two and a-half months.

Nearly 60% of submissions on a proposal to build a contemporary building next to Arrowtown's St Patrick's Catholic Church favour the project.

Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker is organising two public debates on proposed legislation to legalise voluntary euthanasia.

A Queenstown man is calling for changes to dog control laws after his dogs were shot by two prominent farmers last month.

The first step has been taken in creating a master plan for the expansion of the Queenstown and Wanaka recreation centres over the next 20 years and beyond.

Indoor freedivers from Hawaii and Australia will be hitting the water in a field of nearly 30 competitors at the Freediving New Zealand Pool Nationals starting in Queenstown today.

The Taxpayers Union says it ''beggars belief'' the Queenstown Lakes District Council provided $243,325 in funding to the Queenstown and Wanaka Chambers of Commerce in the 2016-17 financial year.

The Queenstown Lakes now has two dog derbies.

The growth of residential visitor accommodation is severely affecting housing affordability and long-term rentals in the Queenstown Lakes district, an economist says.

Groundwork has begun on a multimillion-dollar boutique lodge and cottages complex at Gibbston Valley Winery near Queenstown.

A long-term project to restore a wetland beside Lake Hayes had a boost at the weekend as volunteers dug in 600 native plants.

Public hearings on the next batch of chapters in the Queenstown Lakes district’s long-running proposed district plan (PDP) process start at Queenstown’s Heritage Hotel on Tuesday.

No-one wandering the streets and lanes of central Queenstown in the past few days could be in any doubt they are in rainbow country.

The Prime Minister's new chief science adviser is taking a low-tech approach to gathering ideas on how science can help New Zealand.