Tracey Roxburgh

Christchurch International Airport is underwriting a game-changing South Island project which aims to boost Chinese tourist numbers and increase their visitor spend.

This year’s Queenstown Nines Rugby League Tournament may not be a completely dry event, provided the organising committee obtains a special licence.

The manager of Queenstown's CBD says the town is in the middle of a ''$1 billion transformation phase'' and its community needs ''big city pants to sort it out''.

Raising parking fees and removing more free parks around Queenstown are two changes proposed to enhance the ''liveability'' and improve the visitor experience in the resort.

Two Dutch nationals were ''a bit cold'' after being plucked from Ben Lomond about 3am yesterday.

Sleep deprivation was rife in Queenstown yesterday after one of the most spectacular thunder and lightning shows in recent years kept residents and visitors awake until the wee hours.

A public library in Frankton may be on the cards.

A Kingston man who has turned his passion into a career was honoured by the New Zealand Outdoors Instructors Association at an awards ceremony held at Rotoiti Lodge, in St Arnaud, on Saturday night.

Almost 60% of freedom camping fines issued in the Queenstown Lakes District in the past financial year have been paid.

A Wanaka bar worker who hopes to clean up a late-night lounge bar will find out in the next month if his application for a duty manager’s certificate is approved.

Judge John Strettell yesterday found  there was insufficient proof a Queenstown Lakes man intended to cause grievous bodily harm to his infant son last year.

A Wanaka woman convicted of drink-driving and failing to stop to ascertain injury after a crash in Wanaka last year has had her duty manager’s certificate renewed after she volunteered to take a 28...

More than 20 years after discussions first started, Arrowtown is about to be lit up, possibly paving the way for night-time events, such as a lantern festival.

More than 10 years after investigations first began, construction can finally begin on the Arrowtown Community & Sports Centre.

A Queenstown Lakes man describes the moment he ‘‘completely mishandled’’ his 23-day-old son, resulting in the infant sustaining 13 fractured ribs and a broken upper left arm, as a ‘‘brainstorm’’.

The Hawthorne Dr extension, which will ultimately link Remarkables Park to an internal roundabout near Pak'n Save, is ``tracking well'' to open before Christmas.