Guy Williams

Five people who raised the alarm after getting stuck above a waterfall near Queenstown on Tuesday should have called emergency services back after extricating themselves, police say.

All Black great Richie McCaw says a touch rugby team he is selecting for a game in Queenstown next month will be ''up for the challenge''.

Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft has exhorted school principals to show ''moral courage'' and stand up for New Zealand's children.

A Wanaka man accused a judge of bullying and intimidation yesterday, then invited him out for lunch.

Queenstown Airport has yet to be affected by Auckland’s jet fuel crisis, but is monitoring the situation.

Queenstown could be heading for an oversupply of hotel rooms, a hotel sector representative warns.

A discharge of wastewater into Lake Wakatipu’s Frankton Arm last Thursday was caused by an amateur repair job on a broken pipe.

Remarkables Park Ltd (RPL) chief executive Alastair Porter says it was a "nice irony" he and Queenstown Airport Corporation chief executive Colin Keel were co-judges of a business case competition...

The final case study in a business competition for university students considered the future of Queenstown Airport — the day after the airport released its draft 30-year master plan.

The National Party’s Clutha-Southland candidate says he will argue for a Queenstown bed tax if he is elected.

A hut built from a 26,000 litre plastic water tank is proving its worth in the mountains behind Arrowtown.

Tax was the recurring theme of a pre-election political debate in Queenstown last night.

A scandal over the leaking of details of Winston Peters' superannuation overpayments was the ''elephant in the hall'' at a pre-election political debate in Queenstown tonight.

A tramper was plucked from Lake Wakatipu yesterday after being swept away trying to cross a river.

A proposed border tax on international tourists is drawing a mixed reaction from tourism and local government leaders in Otago.

Queenstown's two newest schools are drawing up expansion plans to cope with exponential roll growth.

An aerial 1080 operation to control rat numbers across 11,000 hectares of the Dart and Routeburn valleys is scheduled to start in a fortnight.