Guy Williams

A Wānaka man masturbated as he drove after indecently assaulting a teenaged girl in his car, a court has heard.

A Clyde cafe owner has been ordered to pay more than $17,000 to a former worker for wrongful dismissal.

A high court judge has urged the warring directors of a Queenstown digital media business to resolve their dispute outside the courts.

A Queenstown man was so drunk he cannot remember assaulting a bouncer who kicked him out of a bar.

New Zealand’s largest motor caravanning group has successfully challenged the legality of the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s freedom camping bylaw.

A Lake Hawea man who indecently assaulted two women in Cromwell has been sentenced to 13 months’ imprisonment.

 Glenorchy residents remain nervous about the dangers of visitors swimming near the Rees River mouth since two drownings within a week last year, a community leader says.

A prominent Queenstown farming family’s rezoning bid for a luxury housing development has been reined in by an Environment Court decision.

An intoxicated chef who left a trail of destruction in a fast-food restaurant’s drive-through has been refused a discharge without conviction.

A Cromwell man without a firearms licence was found with an illegally stored rifle and ammunition when police searched his home for cannabis.

A recidivist drink-driver who crashed his vehicle into a car driven by a pregnant woman near Lake Hayes has failed in a bid to overturn his prison sentence.

Two workmates who assaulted a Queenstown man outside his home in the middle of the night were "hyped up, fuelled by alcohol and out to cause trouble", a judge says.

A Queenstown company director charged with multiple drug dealing offences has had his name suppressed.

The last man standing after a failed retirement village development in Wānaka must repay the project’s financier $3.4 million after losing a court appeal.

A Queenstown man who supplied an estimated $24,000 of cannabis to associates in the resort town is no "Mr Asia", his lawyer says.

Two light-fingered Canadians have blamed Queenstown’s cost of living for their thievery.