Guy Williams

Swiss-Belhotel International has announced it will open two new hotels in Queenstown late next year.

An Australian man failed to pay for a taxi ride, then went to sleep in the wrong house.

The subdivision of a high-profile Gibbston valley site looks set to proceed after a "somewhat unusual" Environment Court decision.

Otago regional councillor Michael Laws says the smell from a landfill near Gibbston is another example of his organisation sitting on its hands over consent breaches.

A Queenstown builder and his mate were not wearing seatbelts when their ute veered off the road and plunged 25m down a bank in Kelvin Heights.

Gibbston residents are being assailed by the smell of the dump again, and they are not happy about it.

A high-powered Auckland accountant who assaulted his wife in the bedroom of their Central Otago home has been denied a discharge without conviction.

Three years after nearly losing its accreditation to issue building consents, the Queenstown Lakes District Council's building consents team's performance has improved out of sight, its manager says.

After 10 days of painstaking effort, an intricately made art work of coloured sand was ritually destroyed in Queenstown yesterday.

It has been a mixed bag on Queenstown's skifields so far, so it is hardly surprising the same is holding true for some resort businesses.

Massive stormwater pipes are being pushed beneath a highway in Frankton as traffic continues to flow above.

An Australian tourist who punched two compatriots on a Queenstown dance floor had earlier threatened one of them by text message, police say.

The Otago Regional Council has received 164 submissions on a Queenstown Lakes District Council consent application to discharge wastewater overflows into fresh water, or on to land, for 35 years.

A funding boost from the Otago Museum will help Queenstown Primary School pupils carry out scientific monitoring of their conservation efforts.

Former All Black Duncan Robertson will remain in hospital for at least another day after he was found lying injured on a Queenstown road.

Burying or interring loved ones' remains is about to get pricier in the Queenstown Lakes district, but they are likely to have a better headstone.

Work on a $2.8million upgrade of Arrowtown's water supply is set to start on Monday.