Guy Williams

A stalwart of nursing in the Wakatipu was recognised with a special award yesterday.

An alleged drink-driver caught near Arrowtown on Monday night was more than six times the legal limit, police say.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council's surplus in the past financial year was 50% higher than budgeted.

An  expectant mother in Queenstown was the beneficiary of the first telemedicine antenatal clinic between Southland Hospital and Lakes District Hospital yesterday.

Operators of "pub crawls" in Queenstown will need a permit from November, despite the move being labelled "bureaucracy gone mad".

Queenstown's hospital has become "run-down" because of indecision by the Southern DHB, deputy commissioner Richard Thomson told a public meeting in the resort yesterday.

Queenstown's community will be asked to share ideas on how best to redevelop a slice of prime land in the resort’s town centre.

A plan to call for public feedback on how to redevelop a piece of central Queenstown land has provoked a warning shot from the arts community.

Trampers will once again be able to complete the full Rees-Dart walking circuit this summer, nearly two years after river erosion washed away a section of track in the Dart Valley.

If Bob O’Connor and Peter MacKay cannot find a rental house by this Thursday, they will be out on the streets, they say.

It is a chance to be a cog in the inner workings of the biggest annual sporting event in the Wakatipu.

Queenstown  Airport has gained the Project of the Year award at the New Zealand Airports Conference.

Coronet Peak ski area manager Ross Copland is quitting to take up the top job with the owner of Turoa and Whakapapa skifields.

The waiting time for defendants to go to trial in the Queenstown District Court has more than doubled in the past three years.

One of Queenstown’s biggest employers is welcoming the prospect of a $30million-plus worker housing complex planned for central Queenstown.