A British woman rescued from Fiordland’s Dusky Track after injuring her ankle says her experience shows personal locator beacons are essential in New Zealand’s back country.
The owners of the Kingston Flyer have applied for resource consent to run the heritage steam train as a commercial operation, but have no timeframe for starting the venture.
Despite an anticipated increase in domestic travellers to Queenstown Lakes this summer, the number of freedom campers is so far well down on recent summers.
Organisers of the Gibbston Valley Winery Summer Concert near Queenstown have been forced to change the line-up because of Covid-19 outbreaks in two Australian states.
A failed attempt to drill a borehole beneath Queenstown’s town centre, and instead install a new wastewater pipeline using traditional methods is expected to cost ratepayers up to $2.5million.
An attempt to drill a borehole beneath the Queenstown town centre for a new wastewater pipeline has been abandoned after the contractor struck "prehistoric" timber 20m underground.
A Queenstown drug dealer built up a customer base in the resort’s bars and nightclubs before taking his business online to avoid detection by police, a court has heard.