New Zealand’s largest motor caravanning group has successfully challenged the legality of the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s freedom camping bylaw.
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 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.
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.
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 caught drink-driving in his landlord’s vehicle while serving an alcohol interlock sentence told police he did not know it was illegal because he "does not study the law".