Tracey Roxburgh

Real Journeys and the Queenstown Resort College were last night honoured at the 2017 New Zealand Tourism Awards in Christchurch.

A "David vs Goliath battle'' of touch rugby is being planned for Queenstown, between a local team and an all-stars side hand-picked by former All Black captain Richie McCaw.

Farmers are being urged to be mindful of the dangers of frost-cured fine fuels in the wake of a burn-off that jumped its containment line near the Remarkables yesterday.

Tiny tots on wheels will soon have their own loop track on which to practise their skills in one of Queenstown's newest subdivisions.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council is to delay issuing decisions on the first stage of its proposed district plan (PDP) by a year.

Worksafe is making preliminary inquiries after a 25-year-old woman got her hand caught in a dough press in an Arrowtown restaurant yesterday morning.

A woman sustained moderate injuries after getting her hand caught in machinery in an Arrowtown restaurant this morning.

Queenstown Airport will need a new terminal to accommodate passenger movements which may be capped at five million a year by 2045, airport bosses say.

Queenstown firm Southern PR has been named the top public relations agency in Australasia at the Australasian Leisure Management Communications and Marketing Awards.

An allegedly  illegal discharge of wastewater has resulted in  the Queenstown Lakes District Council receiving a court summons.

A house bus that caught fire over the weekend was  badly damaged, a Glenorchy rural firefighter says.

The National Party says it will take a tougher stand on freedom campers if it is re-elected next month.

Stampede by name, Stampede by nature.

Queenstown police say an allegation of a sexual assault in Fernhill earlier this month was ''unfounded''.

A Queenstown-based company which is now New Zealand's biggest maritime training employer after the Navy was last night named the Diversity Awards New Zealand Supreme Award winner.

Subject to final approval, work could begin on Skyline Enterprises Ltd's massive redevelopment of its flagship Queenstown operation in the first quarter of next year.

A resource consent application has been lodged for a controversial building, proposed to sit beside the historic St Patrick’s Church in Arrowtown.

A liquidator has called in private investigators and lawyers to recover assets seized and "hidden" by a creditor.