A Queenstown beauty salon owner has become the first person in New Zealand to be prosecuted for providing sunbed tanning services to a person under 18.
A $90 million spend on Queenstown’s roads will help ease congestion issues but millions more need to be spent on the district’s transport infrastructure, Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult says.
A Te Anau woman was taken to Lakes District Hospital after her rental vehicle crashed near the Bennetts Bluff lookout in Glenorchy-Queenstown Rd about 5pm yesterday.
The Singaporean tourist responsible for the death of Queenstown resident Noelene Tait (84) in a car crash on January 14 told police he does not know why he drove into the opposite lane.
The father of a promising climber who died in a fall in Fiordland’s Darran Mountains says his son never felt pushed by his New Zealand Alpine Team mentors.
A mentor of two New Zealand Alpine Team members who died in a fall in Fiordland National Park in 2017 says the team does not push young climbers beyond their capabilities.
Two climbers who died in a "forbidding" Fiordland valley were part of a group which encouraged young members to go beyond their capabilities, an inquest has heard.
Two promising mountaineers who died in a fall in Fiordland National Park in 2017 had sufficient skills and experience for the climb they were attempting, an inquest in Queenstown was told...