A retirement village developer has apologised for failing to tell the Queenstown Trails Trust it was temporarily closing two public tracks in Lake Hayes Estate.
The Southern District Health Board has been ordered to pay $6000 compensation to a Queenstown nurse for the way it investigated her complaint about a colleague.
A pilot killed in a fatal helicopter crash near Queenstown in 2015 failed to tell authorities or his employer he had been treated for a mental health condition only months earlier.
The mental health of a Wanaka pilot is unlikely to have been a factor in a helicopter crash that killed him and a Queenstown man in 2015, the crash's investigator says.
A fire that started in a clothes drier was a reminder to business owners about the risks of oil residue on towels, Central-North Otago fire risk management officer Stuart Ide said.
Updated suicide statistics for the Queenstown Lakes area should be treated with the utmost care. Guy Williams gets an expert’s interpretation, and finds out what mental health services are available in the district.
A tourism company operating farm tours at Mt Nicholas Station tightened its safety procedures after one of its drivers ran over and fatally injured an American tourist last year.