Guy Williams

Operators of "pub crawls" in Queenstown will need a permit from November, despite the move being labelled "bureaucracy gone mad".

Queenstown's hospital has become "run-down" because of indecision by the Southern DHB, deputy commissioner Richard Thomson told a public meeting in the resort yesterday.

Queenstown's community will be asked to share ideas on how best to redevelop a slice of prime land in the resort’s town centre.

A plan to call for public feedback on how to redevelop a piece of central Queenstown land has provoked a warning shot from the arts community.

Trampers will once again be able to complete the full Rees-Dart walking circuit this summer, nearly two years after river erosion washed away a section of track in the Dart Valley.

If Bob O’Connor and Peter MacKay cannot find a rental house by this Thursday, they will be out on the streets, they say.

It is a chance to be a cog in the inner workings of the biggest annual sporting event in the Wakatipu.

Queenstown  Airport has gained the Project of the Year award at the New Zealand Airports Conference.

Coronet Peak ski area manager Ross Copland is quitting to take up the top job with the owner of Turoa and Whakapapa skifields.

The waiting time for defendants to go to trial in the Queenstown District Court has more than doubled in the past three years.

One of Queenstown’s biggest employers is welcoming the prospect of a $30million-plus worker housing complex planned for central Queenstown.

A proposed gondola to the Franz Josef Glacier is winning early support from West Coast interests, but the project could take five years to get off the ground, the company behind it says.

The  Ferg empire continues to expand.

Queenstown residents need to start having "hard conversations'' with each other about drinking and driving, police say.

An investigation into an alleged unwanted advance towards a female hitchhiker between Queenstown and Cromwell should be resolved within a week, police say.

A helicopter with six people on board has rolled over while attempting a snow landing on the Crown Range near Queenstown this afternoon.