Guy Williams

Tough new travel restrictions have had an immediate effect on passenger movements at Queenstown Airport.

Destination Queenstown has cancelled an Adventure Festival event planned for the Coronet Peak ski area this Thursday evening.

A new residential development just off Lake Hayes Estate’s Onslow Road will house workers at Queenstown’s Southern Cross hospital.

"Rattled and shocked" Queenstown business leaders are urgently planning how to minimise the impact of the escalated travel restrictions announced on Saturday on their companies and workers.

An economic shock and redundancies in the tourism-heavy Queenstown Lakes district will likely result from strict new travel restrictions, the district's mayor warns.

After four years of reports, debates and rejected housing proposals, a direction has finally been set for the development of the Ladies Mile.

Queenstown police are looking for a man who did a runner after crashing a stolen car in downtown Queenstown last night.

The hills above Arrowtown are alive with the sound of chainsaws.

Queenstown's community is the poorer for the loss of long-time social worker, rugby stalwart and former district councillor Merv Aoake, a friend says.

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 $26 million redevelopment of Queenstown’s O’Connells shopping mall is poised to start.

Police armed with rifles arrested a man in Frankton yesterday after he allegedly threatened arborists with a samurai sword.

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 man believed to be a resident of Frankton Motor Camp was arrested by armed police today after allegedly threatening arborists with a samurai sword.

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.