Tracey Roxburgh

Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult says the ''horrendous'' cost of running power lines underground in the Wakatipu to keep electricity on when it snows is difficult to justify.

Queenstown Airport’s night-time curfew was flouted last year because the control tower, an airport staff member and an airline did not think it was important enough to ground the flight.

It is a field of dreams, more than three years in the planning, and next weekend it will host its first tournament.

The Southern District Health Board says it is ''certainly open'' to working with a new company formed to progress an independent surgical hospital in Queenstown.

A new hospital for Queenstown is a step closer after a private health company and a charitable trust formed a company to make progress on realising it.

Two councils are yet to decide whether to publicly notify consent applications for $18 million of work at The Remarkables.

A CT scanner will be operational in the Wakatipu by ''mid-2019'' as work finally begins on a multimillion-dollar upgrade of Lakes District Hospital.

The director of a company placed in liquidation last year has ''started a payment'' to the liquidator.

A total of 345,000cu m of earthworks over 122,000sqm of land will be required at The Remarkables to create three new trails and upgrade a chairlift.

More than 50 helicopter pilots, including members of the New Zealand Defence Force, are being trained this week how to avoid a dangerous phenomenon which may have caused a fatal helicopter crash in...

A "collaborative alliance" is on the cards between the Queenstown Lakes District Council, Otago Regional Council and NZ Transport Agency to help address Queenstown's transport challenges.

History was made in Queenstown on Saturday afternoon when Glenn Inkster and Spencer Winn cruised to their fifth consecutive Targa Rally title.

Blue Mountain College teacher Anna Eade can now add world champion riverboarder to her CV.

Queenstowners raised about $12,000 towards a life-changing surgery for three-year-old Harry Finch last week.

Clutha-Southland MP Hamish Walker made a fleeting visit to China this month, but says there is no link between his trip and a Chinese millionaire at the centre of a National Party ruckus.

An investigation is under way to determine how two heritage huts, located in the wider Queenstown Airport precinct, came to be removed by a contractor.