Guy Williams

Neighbours' opposition to a hotel proposed for central Queenstown has dissolved, a public hearing was told yesterday.

A Queenstown man who set fire to his former partner’s home while she and her children were sleeping has been jailed for more than four years.

Tour of Southland champion Michael Vink has secured an unusual  double, winning The Pioneer mountain bike race in Queenstown yesterday.

Despite a wet November, the El Nino weather system could create the conditions for another hectic summer fire season, the region’s rural fire boss says.

A Queenstown architect and a local property developer have gone another round in the courts in a long-running legal bout over a mound of earth between their properties.

A Lake Hayes farmer who lost 13 sheep in a dog attack this week says the financial cost is bad enough, but the stress and worry it causes him and his wife are worse.

Queenstown fashion store World has removed two signs from its window display after a complaint to the council.

Two new "pit stops'' for freedom campers in Queenstown and Wanaka have experienced a quiet start to the summer season since opening on Saturday.

The old Kawarau Falls bridge continues to be the orphan nobody wants.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council’s main office building will remain closed this  week as the clean-up from a major diesel leak continues.

Queenstown's main council building will remain closed for another week following a diesel leak on Monday.

Queenstown's TSS Earnslaw will sound her horn 11 times on Sunday to recreate an event from a century earlier.

Queenstown's public library reopened this morning following the discovery of a diesel spill in the building on Monday.

The failure of a switch is the likely cause of a diesel leak that forced the closure of the Queenstown Lakes District Council's main office building yesterday.

Queenstown's Lakes District Hospital is finally getting a CT scanner after a million-dollar-plus grant from the Central Lakes Trust.

An $11 million redevelopment of Arrowtown School is expected to start next February, nearly seven years after watertightness problems at the school were discovered.

Queenstown's council building and library have been evacuated after diesel leaked from a tank and contaminated ceilings, walls and floors.

A regional councillor has told a Friends of Lake Hayes Society member its "next steps are going to be better'' after the Otago Regional Council (ORC) approved a non-notified consent for work on the...

A monorail, mosque, military base, more singing and less yoga.

Residents of Lake Hayes Estate should feel safe, despite a stabbing in the Queenstown suburb on Sunday night, police say.