Guy Williams

After eight years of debate and a court appeal, a contentious plan to build a parish and community centre next to Arrowtown’s St Patrick’s Catholic Church has been abandoned.

A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.

A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.

New Zealand’s accident investigation body is recommending anomalies in Civil Aviation rules be addressed as a result of its findings into a fatal helicopter crash near Lawrence in 2021.

A judicial review of the Queenstown Lakes District Council’s freedom camping bylaw has been delayed after the judge recused herself from the case.

A man caught ransacking a golf club shed while wearing an orange hazmat suit and a gas mask was high on drugs, a court has heard.

A Queenstown helicopter pilot who flew into a high-tension wire while on a scenic flight with six passengers on board has been fined $3500.

An experienced hunter who died in a fall in Mt Aspiring National Park in 2020 was not known as a risk taker, a coroner says.

A Queenstown helicopter pilot who flew into a high tension wire while on a scenic flight with six passengers on board has been fined $3500.

Multiple failures in the building of a leaky Wānaka home over a decade ago, and a failed repair job in 2019, will cost nearly $250,000 to fix.

An unprovoked attack by a Roxburgh man on his friend and workmate has been labelled an act of "betrayal" by his lawyer.

Almost five years after Gore boy Lachie Jones was found dead in an oxidation pond, Paul Jones hopes an inquest will ‘‘uncover the truth’’ about what happened to his son.

Alnost five years after Gore boy Lachie Jones was found dead in an oxidation pond, Paul Jones hopes an inquest will "uncover the truth" about what happened to his son.

The ex-owner of an Alexandra rest-home must pay a former assistant carer more than $37,000 after his multiple breaches of her employment agreement prompted her to resign.

The backers of the contentious Olive Leaf building proposed for Arrowtown have lost an Environment Court appeal, six years after applying for resource consent.

A Queenstown finance industry professional caught dealing cocaine and ecstasy cannot be named after indicating he would appeal a judge’s decision to decline permanent name suppression.

Southern police are pulling their weight in a national effort to hit roadside breath-testing targets.

An Aucklander who seriously injured a Queenstown policeman with a single punch early last year has avoided prison.