Passengers should have confidence landing at Queenstown Airport, despite its runway's safety areas being the minimum length allowed, the Civil Aviation Authority says.
A 5% visitor levy proposed for the Queenstown Lakes district strikes a balance between "what we'd really like and what we think is practical", Mayor Jim Boult says.
Two of the survivors of a helicopter crash near the Auckland Islands have credited the calm and decisiveness of their crewmate, paramedic John Lambeth, for helping save their lives.
Glenorchy Community Association members are worried about a company's call to relax rules for commercial mining in a historic mining area near the township.