The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) is investigating Queenstown woman Clare Holden's claims she sustained serious facial injuries after a Connectabus bus driver braked sharply on the evening of January 21.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council will lobby the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) for more winter maintenance funding, arguing that Wakatipu's tourism and alpine setting mean the district faces distinct challenges.
Queenstown Lakes District Council has moved to adopt a $105,000 option to upgrade the river eroded Von Rd - the sole public access to Mt Nicholas Station, Walter Peak Station and the Walter Peak visitor centre.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has adopted a plan to spread sewage sludge on land near Luggate despite strong opposition stopping a similar proposal in the Ardgour Valley, near Tarras, last year.
The Queenstown Lakes District Council has approved the construction of a multimillion-dollar wastewater pump at Frankton that will lessen the pollution risk associated with shutting down the existing pump and accommodate for predicted population growth in the district.
Over a 30-year career, prominent lawyer Graeme Todd has watched Queenstown blossom from a gravelly lakeside hamlet with a manual telephone exchange into the "leading all-year-round resort in the Southern Hemisphere". Queenstown Times reporter Matt Stewart spoke to the former AFS scholar about his impending retirement from Queenstown-based law firm Mactodd.
A mini-tornado ripped through Fiordland College, in Te Anau, on Wednesday morning, tearing corrugated iron off classroom roofs and flinging one sheet up to 150m over trees across a sports field.
The Otago Regional Council is concerned logging in three prominent forests above Queenstown could create the risk of slips threatening residential areas.
The chief executive of Railmark - a United States-based global rail consortium interested in buying the mothballed Kingston Flyer - says he can take the 126-year-old vintage steam train "to the next level".
A Queenstown restaurant owner who says that "millionaire mongrels - young, dumb and full of cash" are "ruining our town" claims he was assaulted by a visiting Australian AFL player.
The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) is monitoring the site of Saturday morning's rockfall that closed State Highway 6 near Wye Creek, 15km north of the Devil's Staircase, between Frankton and Kingston.
New York Yankees baseball star Curtis Granderson zips down Ziptrek's world's steepest tree-to-tree flying fox adventure on a whirlwind adventure tour of Queenstown.
A tramper who broke both legs after a 30m fall on to rocks in the Buckler Burn near Glenorchy "is incredibly lucky to be alive".
Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration event manager Richard Broadhead says sales of the region's globally renowned luxury varietal are starting to bounce back from the throes of recession.
Wakatipu families relished the chance to come out of the woods for some furry frolics at Saturday's teddy bears' picnic held at the Remarkables Park Farmers Market.
Big boulders which plunged down a steep hillside on Saturday could have killed motorists at the notoriously unstable Devil's Staircase bluff, police warned after viewing the damage yesterday.
The Environment Court intends to grant the Spruce Grove Trust resource consent for only four of six proposed residential-rural lots near the Millbrook Resort at Malaghans Rd near Arrowtown - in part to save sightlines to Coronet Peak.
Concerns over the Queenstown Lakes District Council's plans to allow for logging in three prominent forests around Queenstown have been raised by submitters.
A clutch of luminaries has descended on Queenstown for the Central Otago Pinot Noir Celebration, featuring a global cast of wine writers, media movers and hospitality heavyweights.
After a 12-hour overnight odyssey from Nelson involving litres of energy drinks - and a triple road-kill incident - two Canadians and a Scot saw just 26 balls in yesterday's rained off one-day cricket international at the Queenstown Events Centre.
