Guy Williams

A proposal for Queenstown's Mt Dewar Station billed as the country's largest commercially funded native reforestation project should be rejected, a council planning report recommends.

A traffic hold-up caused by a broken-down truck on the Kingston road led to the apprehension of a disqualified driver yesterday.

Two Australian brothers ended up in hospital after one glassed the other in a Queenstown bar last night.

A Queenstown builder has been jailed for five years for sexually assaulting a woman in the resort in 2017.

The Otago Regional Council is seeking public opinion on how to restore the health of Lake Hayes.

A man is in custody after allegedly threatening to burn down a Queenstown backpacker hostel this morning.

The launch of 5G in Queenstown opens the door to the world for the resort's tech innovators, Startup Queenstown Lakes chief executive James Burnes says.

A German woman seriously injured in a Queenstown crash four months ago is a ''fighter'', her mother says.

More details have emerged of a twin-hotel development in Queenstown's Gorge Rd that will add 437 rooms to the resort's accommodation capacity.

Swiss-Belhotel International has announced it will open two new hotels in Queenstown late next year.

An Australian man failed to pay for a taxi ride, then went to sleep in the wrong house.

The subdivision of a high-profile Gibbston valley site looks set to proceed after a "somewhat unusual" Environment Court decision.

Otago regional councillor Michael Laws says the smell from a landfill near Gibbston is another example of his organisation sitting on its hands over consent breaches.

A Queenstown builder and his mate were not wearing seatbelts when their ute veered off the road and plunged 25m down a bank in Kelvin Heights.

Gibbston residents are being assailed by the smell of the dump again, and they are not happy about it.

A high-powered Auckland accountant who assaulted his wife in the bedroom of their Central Otago home has been denied a discharge without conviction.