Guy Williams

A drink-driver was "peacocking" when he pulled a skidding 180-degree turn in front of police, his lawyer says.

It was a "miracle" a man did not kill or injure someone as he drove from Cromwell to Queenstown while six times the legal limit, a judge says.

Billionaire Peter Thiel’s proposed luxury lodge near Wānaka has been rejected again.

The police accept there were failings in its initial investigation of the death of Lachie Jones, but their subsequent work has found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing, a report says.

A drinking and speeding driver in Wanaka has blamed "panic-mode" for failing to stop for police.

An English bull terrier that attacked two boys playing on a flying fox near Queenstown will not be put down, a judge has decided.

A Queenstown man drove while four times the legal limit because he wanted to get his catch of fish and oysters home.

A Queenstown cleaning company that unlawfully dismissed two workers must pay nearly $50,000 in compensation.

A Queenstown man has described how he was attacked by two men outside his home after they turned on a concrete compacting machine in the middle of the night.

A Frenchman responsible for a string of dishonesty offences in Queenstown has been called a "thoroughly dishonest person" by a judge.

A British man caught dealing cocaine in Queenstown will be deported after completing a home detention sentence.

A group of residents fighting a luxury lodge proposed for Queenstown’s Bobs Cove had expected to be on the same side as the Queenstown Lakes District Council, their lawyer has said.

For the second time in two months, the Queenstown Lakes District Council has been accused of "witness shopping" after dropping its opposition to a contentious luxury lodge proposal.