Guy Williams

Queenstown's "famous singing sheepdog", Happy, will have to keep howling through a muzzle, a council panel has ruled.

A former president of the Mongrel Mob’s Invercargill chapter who rammed a BNZ kiosk in central Queenstown was in a "psychotic state", his lawyer says.

Skifield owner NZSki was "put on notice" about the risks posed by a wood and metal fence on Coronet Peak, five years before a Queenstown woman died after skiing into it, a judge says.

A Mataura man has been caught drink-driving twice in two months with identical breath-alcohol levels more than four times the legal limit.

A Queenstown man ripped off three friends for more than $14,000 to feed a gambling addiction, a court has heard.

A Mataura man has been caught drink-driving twice in two months with identical breath-alcohol levels more than four times the legal limit.

A Wānaka man who crashed into a parked car after drinking 25 pre-mixed drinks had a blood-alcohol level "off the charts", a community magistrate says.

A French DJ’s lucrative sideline in drug dealing came to an end when he sold ecstasy to an undercover detective in Queenstown.

A Queenstown restaurateur urinated in the telephone room of the resort town’s police station after being caught drink-driving, a court has heard.

A Queenstown builder who knocked out a pensioner with a coward’s punch knows he is on his last chance, his lawyer says.

A judge has thrown out a woman’s application for an Otago Daily Times article about her drink-driving conviction to be removed from the newspaper’s website.

In a first for Queenstown Lakes, a non-profit organisation is taking a kaupapa Māori approach to providing social services for convicted offenders.

The death of a Pisa Moorings man in a fiery crash near Wānaka Airport was another example of the dangers of drink-driving, a coroner says.

The victim of an indecent assault showed remarkable composure to get her attacker’s details and coax him out of her home, a judge says.