Paul Taylor

Family, friends and colleagues have paid tribute to "legendary" Queenstown rafting guide Moana-Roa Chief Haare, who died yesterday.

A man whose arm was crushed in a factory machine said he has ''no anger'' towards his former employer but is not convinced the company has been sufficiently punished.

What does it take to design a hotel? Architect Preston Stevens talks to Paul Taylor about designing the resort’s latest accommodation offering.

Monday was unofficially Queenstown's hottest day on record - reaching 35.2degC.

Queenstown's Alice Robinson is set to become the country's youngest winter Olympian.

Queenstown Lakes District Council has asked the Government to delay its proposed Overseas Investment Amendment Bill.

Residents of Lake Hawea township were urged to conserve water yesterday afternoon after an electrical protection device at the Hawea water treatment plant failed.

A slip road for a hazardous Queenstown intersection still does not have funding approval and it could be the end of the year before the upgrade is complete, if at all.

Christy Prior and Queenstown snowboarder Tiarn Collins (centre) with coaches Sean Thompson (left) and Mitchell Brown celebrate Collins' snowboarding bronze medal in the slopestyle World Cup at...

A top New Zealand parachuting safety expert says it is standard practice around the world for tandem skydivers to separate when they make an emergency landing in water.

Queenstown's harbourmaster says the body of a missing skydiver may never surface naturally from Lake Wakatipu and police say any recovery will be complex.

Queenstown Lakes District Council has been inundated by visitor accommodation paperwork as property owners scramble to get sign-off before proposed rule changes take effect.

Queenstown's historic single-lane bridge at Kawarau Falls is now closed to traffic, after serving the resort for more than 90 years.

Queenstown fisherman and hunter Mark Salmons was "in his element'' at the moment he died, said his wife, Sharon, at his funeral yesterday.

Paul Taylor looks for Kiwi ingenuity and asks Henry Wadworth-Watts about designing world class aluminium jet-boats in his Queenstown workshop for niche kitset markets.

People who dob in poor or dangerous drivers are helping make roads safer, Central Otago’s top road-policing officer says.

An innovative Queenstown company has won an Academy Award for its helicopter camera mount.

Queenstown firefighters are going door-to-door to warn about fires and fireworks as a total fire ban is put in place in the town.