Guy Williams

The Glenorchy Races got back in the saddle on Saturday after a two-year hiatus.

The weather gods look set to smile on tomorrow’s Glenorchy Races.

Many Queenstown businesses are facing the new year with trepidation as they plan for survival with closed borders, the spectre of Omicron and no wage subsidy support.

Wakatipu residents took advantage of a rare chance to watch top-flight live cricket yesterday.

A poplar tree beside a rural Queenstown road has toppled in the same week a decision was made to close the road in high winds.

Retired Queenstown builder Jeff Hylton combines exceptional manual skills and an artistic streak to create antler chandeliers.

About 60 people and 20 volunteers brought some Yuletide cheer to Queenstown’s CBD with a Christmas lunch at the resort’s Memorial Centre yesterday.

There's a new Dotcom mansion near Glenorchy.

An expected shortage of security staff for Queenstown bars on New Year’s Eve has some hospitality operators concerned.

The couple who left Auckland’s Covid-19 lockdown for a holiday home in Wanaka have already paid a heavy price for their transgression, Queenstown Lakes deputy mayor Calum MacLeod says.

A road policing team with a renewed focus on impaired and high-risk driving is being trialled in the Otago Lakes Central area this summer.

A proposal to upgrade Queenstown’s Hotops Rise pathway into a dedicated cycle path, felling 42 trees in the process, has been defeated.

Otago's four major ski areas are likely to run out of capacity within a decade.

Next year’s New Zealand Open tournament in Queenstown hangs in the balance as organisers consider whether it can go ahead as an all-Kiwi event.

The friends of a Queenstown man who died in a rafting incident on the Caples River on Monday raised the alarm with a personal locator beacon.

Major changes to New Zealand’s border restrictions have been greeted with a mixture of frustration and cautious optimism.

How a gas incident, which injured two people, at a Queenstown hotel happened remains unclear, as its manager is refusing to answer questions.