Guy Williams

Patrons at this month’s Rhythm & Alps festival can still buy four drinks at a time, and the organisers are confident they can deliver a "safe and enjoyable" event.

Patrons at this month’s Rhythm & Alps festival at Cardrona can still buy four drinks at a time, but bar hours have been reduced on two of its days.

An aircraft engineer caught shoplifting at two Wānaka supermarkets has been denied a discharge without conviction.

The de facto manager of Alexandra’s Criterion Club Hotel, and the company behind it, must pay more than $50,000 in penalties and arrears following a complaint by a former employee.

A judge has warned a recidivist drink-driver he could go to jail if he offends again.

The circumstances surrounding the death of a man who disappeared in 2018 will probably never be known, a coroner says.

A legal dispute between the backers of a marina and village development once mooted for Queenstown’s Homestead Bay has been laid bare in a High Court decision.

A judge told a Gore engineer he was the "gold medal" winner for having the highest breath-alcohol level of the day.

A judge has told a Gore engineer he was the "gold medal" winner for having the highest breath-alcohol level of the day.

After eight years of debate and a court appeal, a contentious plan to build a parish and community centre next to Arrowtown’s St Patrick’s Catholic Church has been abandoned.

A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.

A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.

New Zealand’s accident investigation body is recommending anomalies in Civil Aviation rules be addressed as a result of its findings into a fatal helicopter crash near Lawrence in 2021.

A judicial review of the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s freedom camping bylaw has been delayed after the judge recused herself from the case.

A man caught ransacking a golf club shed while wearing an orange hazmat suit and a gas mask was high on drugs, a court has heard.