David Williams

A grand old lady of Queenstown's cafe scene has had a makeover worth hundreds of thousands of dollars - and had a wine thrust into her hand.

A quick-thinking Australian tourist pulled a woman from a car which caught fire after a three-car crash near Queenstown yesterday.

A visitor levy drive will not be derailed by Prime Minister John Key's departure, Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult says.

Meridian Energy is eyeing Australia for potential growth, but not in the short term.

Queenstown Police are floating the idea of a 24-hour ban on public drinking in the wake of last Saturday's Crate Day chaos in the resort.

Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult will raise "significant concerns" over Aurora Energy’s potentially dangerous power poles with the company’s chief executive next week.

Two major Queenstown landowners have blasted the local council for hatching a road funding plan which would cost them millions of dollars.

Controversial building height increases proposed for a central Queenstown block are being questioned by a nearby landowner.

Commercial transport operators using Queenstown Airport are about to be stung by higher fees.

Good-sport teachers endured small-scale water torture for Arrowtown School on Saturday.

New Zealand musician  Neil Finn helped raise more than $100,000 for an African charity at a glitzy event at Gibbston Valley Winery, near Queenstown, on Friday night.

A slice of motorcycling history has been made at a historic Queenstown-Lakes goldmining village.

Queenstown Lakes’ new mayor has fired a water-quality warning shot across the Otago Regional Council’s bow.

The Immigration Minister has repeatedly asked for United States help to deport a stateless businessman living near Christchurch.

The hard work of being elected is done — the harder work of satisfying community expectation has begun.

Jim Boult is hitting the ground running.

Fire authorities will claim costs from two skyrocket-firing teenagers who started a fire near Lake Hayes yesterday.

About 20 firefighters battled a grass fire which sent large plumes of smoke into the air near Lake Hayes today.