Guy Williams

The Government is ‘‘acutely aware'' of the pressure Queenstown's rapid growth is putting on its roads, Transport Minister Simon Bridges says.

Queenstowners with a spare room and anyone with a holiday house in the resort will have to wait and see how the council responds to the relentless rise of peer-to-peer websites such as Airbnb. Guy Williams reports.

Ngai Tahu wants to map important ancestral sites and cultural landscapes in the Queenstown Lakes district to ensure they are better recognised in council planning.

The Queenstown Lakes district is facing land use planning challenges unique in New Zealand, district plan review commissioners were told yesterday.

There have been further developments in the long-running ‘‘neighbours at war'' dispute between two Gibbston residents.

It has taken years of preparation, will take several more to put into practice, and is regarded as critical to the future development of the Queenstown Lakes district.

A temporary overnight park for coaches and buses in Queenstown has been used only 17 times in the past three weeks.

An air rifle was seized from a man on the Frankton Arm Walkway in Queenstown last night.

Every night at Queenstown Airport, soon after the last aircraft has touched down, its runway begins to resemble the set of a blockbuster alien invasion movie.

A workers' camp has sprung up at the Ramada Hotel construction site near Queenstown Airport.

A Queenstown man says the three occupants of a car that smashed into his ute are lucky to be alive.

Two drink-drivers have left a trail of destruction in Queenstown overnight, damaging a total of seven vehicles as they attempted to drive home.

A male sustained a serious head injury in a 2.5m fall from an embankment by Lake Esplanade in Queenstown late this morning.