Guy Williams

A proposal to permanently chlorinate the water of five townships in the Queenstown Lakes district drew strong opposition from residents at a draft annual plan hearing yesterday.

An 81-year-old man has been charged with careless driving after a crash at a hazardous intersection in Queenstown on Monday evening.

A proposal to harvest a council-owned forest near Arrowtown before it reaches maturity drew sharply divided views at a hearing in Queenstown yesterday.

The impact of parking restrictions in Frankton will be reviewed in six months, partly because residents were not consulted.

The cost of attaching wastewater and water pipelines to the new Kawarau Falls bridge has risen by a third to $7.2 million since the beginning of the year.

TSS Earnslaw sits on the Kelvin Peninsula slipway in Lake Wakatipu’s Frankton Arm for its annual routine maintenance.

An investigation into why a Jetstar aircraft was allowed to take off from Queenstown Airport after its 10pm curfew will take a month to complete, the airport says.

The Kawarau Falls bridge replacement project near Queenstown has gained "significant momentum", NZ Transport Agency senior project manager Phil Dowsett says.

Queenstown's long-awaited eastern access road, Hawthorne Dr, will open in a month’s time.

Two "tenacious" poplar trees on Queenstown Hill are facing the axe despite a  campaign to save them.

The prospect of Queenstown hosting next year’s Under-19 Cricket World Cup highlights a lack of sports facilities in the resort, club representatives say.

Wakatipu Playcentre will become a community hub for parents and children of all ages, president Rebecca Tanner says.

The keeper of the Government’s purse has hammered another nail in Queenstown’s bed-tax coffin.

A 36-year-old South Taranaki man was pepper-sprayed by police near Cromwell on Wednesday after allegedly threatening officers during a drink-drive stop.

Contractors are making visible progress replacing dangerous poles in the Queenstown Lakes district.

Allan Fisher is the last World War 2 veteran still residing in Arrowtown.

A woman whose Bentley convertible overturned on State Highway 6 between Queenstown and Kingston on Sunday is ``heartbroken'' after her dog disappeared following the crash, police say.