Guy Williams

If you have not bought your tickets for the Gibbston Valley Winery Summer Concert, you are too late.

Queenstown residents appear  divided over a plan to open up Queenstown’s gateway for fast-tracked housing.

A bold plan to remove wilding trees from the hillsides around Arrowtown and enhance the township's renowned autumn colours has gone to the community for feedback.

Three property owners in Shotover Country are facing $750 fines after ignoring repeated council requests to comply with the subdivision's fencing rules.

Construction of Wakatipu High School's new Frankton campus is on time and budget, the Ministry of Education says.

One of the two roads connecting Queenstown with the rest of the country has been rated among New Zealand's most dangerous by the Automobile Association (AA).

Low-cost land leases and a non-bank lending scheme are two of the ideas being  considered by a mayoral task force set up to tackle unaffordable housing in Queenstown.

Landmark trees along Ladies Mile threatened with the chop last year will get a trim next week, but their long-term future remains unclear.

Police caught four drink-drivers in Queenstown yesterday, all of them foreigners living in the resort.

The placement of the last steel girder means the new, 250m Kawarau Falls bridge now fully spans the Kawarau River.

A defendant's concerns about being deported or prevented from re-entering New Zealand have been allayed by a judge in Queenstown.

A dramatic increase in judge time in the Queenstown District Court this year is reducing waiting times for criminal trials. 

The Otago Daily Times can name a Wanaka man who has admitted to possessing child pornography.

A fire behind a fireplace in a Quail Rise holiday home has prompted a warning about non-complying flues.

A retirement village developer has apologised for failing to tell the Queenstown Trails Trust it was temporarily closing two public tracks in Lake Hayes Estate.

The Southern District Health Board has been ordered to pay $6000 compensation to a Queenstown nurse for the way it investigated her complaint about a colleague.

A team of champion panners will chase gold in Scotland next month.

A pilot killed in a fatal helicopter crash near Queenstown in 2015 failed to tell authorities or his employer he had been treated for a mental health condition only months earlier.

The mental health of a Wanaka pilot is unlikely to have been a factor in a helicopter crash that killed him and a Queenstown man in 2015, the crash's investigator says.