Guy Williams

The backers of the contentious Olive Leaf building proposed for Arrowtown have lost an Environment Court appeal, six years after applying for resource consent.

A Queenstown finance industry professional caught dealing cocaine and ecstasy cannot be named after indicating he would appeal a judge’s decision to decline permanent name suppression.

Southern police are pulling their weight in a national effort to hit roadside breath-testing targets.

An Aucklander who seriously injured a Queenstown policeman with a single punch early last year has avoided prison.

A Queenstown woman caught drink-driving twice in a day, with "exceptionally high" breath-test levels, has been given a chance to address her alcohol dependence.

Queenstown's "famous singing sheepdog", Happy, will have to keep howling through a muzzle, a council panel has ruled.

A former president of the Mongrel Mob’s Invercargill chapter who rammed a BNZ kiosk in central Queenstown was in a "psychotic state", his lawyer says.

Skifield owner NZSki was "put on notice" about the risks posed by a wood and metal fence on Coronet Peak, five years before a Queenstown woman died after skiing into it, a judge says.

A Mataura man has been caught drink-driving twice in two months with identical breath-alcohol levels more than four times the legal limit.

A Queenstown man ripped off three friends for more than $14,000 to feed a gambling addiction, a court has heard.

A Mataura man has been caught drink-driving twice in two months with identical breath-alcohol levels more than four times the legal limit.

A Wānaka man who crashed into a parked car after drinking 25 pre-mixed drinks had a blood-alcohol level "off the charts", a community magistrate says.

A French DJ’s lucrative sideline in drug dealing came to an end when he sold ecstasy to an undercover detective in Queenstown.

A Queenstown restaurateur urinated in the telephone room of the resort town’s police station after being caught drink-driving, a court has heard.