A mix of intoxication, illicit drug use and sexual offending at the Rhythm & Alps festival causes an ‘‘underbelly’’ of harm to patrons that largely goes unreported, police say.
A legal dispute between the backers of a marina and village development once mooted for Queenstown’s Homestead Bay has been laid bare in a High Court decision.
After eight years of debate and a court appeal, a contentious plan to build a parish and community centre next to Arrowtown’s St Patrick’s Catholic Church has been abandoned.
A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.
A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.
New Zealand’s accident investigation body is recommending anomalies in Civil Aviation rules be addressed as a result of its findings into a fatal helicopter crash near Lawrence in 2021.
A pilot who died when his helicopter crashed near Lawrence in 2021 probably became disoriented while flying in darkness and cloud, an accident report has found.
Almost five years after Gore boy Lachie Jones was found dead in an oxidation pond, Paul Jones hopes an inquest will ‘‘uncover the truth’’ about what happened to his son.
Alnost five years after Gore boy Lachie Jones was found dead in an oxidation pond, Paul Jones hopes an inquest will "uncover the truth" about what happened to his son.