Chris Morris

National carrier Air New Zealand is to lay on more direct flights between Queenstown and Sydney this winter.

The discovery of a rental car submerged deep beneath the surface of Lake Wakatipu has ended a three-year mystery, police say.

Queenstown police say they are keeping a close eye on motorists ignoring red lights on the single-lane Kawarau Falls bridge, after a series of complaints about impatient and dangerous driving.

Opponents of a new bungy operation planned for Queenstown are taking their fight against the development to the Environment Court.

Two councillors' objections have failed to derail plans for residential rates increases of up to 18% across the Queenstown Lakes district.

Homeowners facing rates increases of 18% next year - the largest in the Queenstown Lakes District - are likely to react with hostility to the plans, community association chairman Peter Gibson says.

Queenstown councillors have expressed alarm at rising construction costs after new figures showed a combined $19.4 million budget increase for more than 30 projects planned across the Queenstown Lakes District.

The helicopter trip on which United States hunter Cliff Senter fell to his death in mountainous country near Wanaka was ‘‘apparently illegal'', an inquest in Queenstown has heard.

The coroner hearing evidence about the death of United States hunter Cliff Senter near Wanaka has promised a "remorseless'' examination of the facts, after concerns about the investigation were raised by an expert witness yesterday.

Two police officers fended off an attack by a man wielding a knife in central Queenstown early yesterday.

The developers of the planned $25 million Terrace Junction development at the gateway to Queenstown have announced their first tenants.

Having hundreds of senior cricketers descend on Queenstown provided an economic boost for the resort as well as a sporting shot in the arm, Destination Queenstown says.

Heavy rain has extinguished a large scrub fire burning for six days near Queenstown, and which blazed a path of destruction through a Wakatipu high country station.

Motorists speeding past stationary school buses in Arrowtown have police concerned for the safety of children in the town.