Guy Williams

Southern District police are receiving between 70 and 90 driving complaints a day from the public.

A man arrested for dangerous driving on the Gibbston Highway near Queenstown yesterday told police he was rushing to find a toilet because he had eaten too many cherries in Cromwell.

People leaving their cars in the Queenstown hospital's car park before heading to the airport could get a nasty surprise when they return.

Members of the last two families to live in the historic Mount Aurum Homestead at Skippers are devastated by its loss in a fire on New Year's Day.

A couple who fled the scene of a fire that destroyed an historic homestead at the Skippers camping area on New Year's Day are ''embarrassed'', police say.

Queenstown police want to speak to a couple who fled the scene of a fire that razed an historic homestead at the Skippers camping area this morning.

The residents of 19 homes at Millbrook Resort near Arrowtown were  evacuated after contractors ruptured a gas main yesterday.

A record 600 people tucked into fine food and wine at Arrowtown’s Long Lunch yesterday.

Planning delays have pushed back the opening of a new MRI scanner service until early next year.

Queenstown should have two fast-charging stations for electric vehicles by early next year and a new fast-charger has arrived in Wanaka,  too.

A new site for viewing  Lake Wakatipu will be developed to replace the rockfall-prone Bennetts Bluffs lookout on the Glenorchy-Queenstown road.

A long-mooted plan for a Ngai Tahu-owned hot pools complex in Queenstown's Lakeview site appears to be gathering steam.

A TV series based on The Lord of the Rings is great news for the Wakatipu, whether or not it gets filmed here, film and tourism insiders say.

A feature of daily life in central Queenstown - the fire siren - could be a thing of the past.

Another weekend in the Wakatipu, three more drink-drivers caught.