Guy Williams

Ratepayers are getting a good return on their $50,000 investment in the New Zealand Golf Open, Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult says.

Queenstown Airport is forecasting passenger numbers to keep rising, but considers ''infrastructure challenges'' a risk to its strategic goals.

The men responsible for opening up public access to high country land between Arrowtown and Glendhu Bay have been recognised by the Walking Access Commission.

Queenstown's revamped bus network will get a $1 million annual input from taxpayers.

The absentee owner of a Fernhill house where a huge party was shut down by police at the weekend has condemned the partygoers' behaviour as ``disgusting''.

A Queenstown woman seriously injured in a hit and run incident in the resort on Friday night remains in a coma in Dunedin Hospital.

Geoff Hughes modestly calls himself a "medical doctor on early retirement" who, by luck, fell into a dream conservation job.

The costs of drilling through harder-than-expected rock on the Kawarau Falls bridge replacement project near Queenstown will be borne by contractor McConnell Dowell.

The Rees-Dart tramping circuit reopens today, more than two years after river erosion forced the closure of a section of track in the Dart Valley.

A ''relentless'' Team Tiki Tour won the Godzone adventure race in Queenstown yesterday after fending off a strong challenge from the team of world champion Chris Forne.

Seasoned long-distance traveller Naresh Kumar is enlisting extra leg power on a fundraising ride the length of the country.

Plans to relocate St Joseph’s School from Queenstown Hill to Frankton have been shelved, despite a recent survey showing support for the move.

The Queenstowner regarded as the best adventure race navigator in the world says this year’s Godzone race is shorter than he expected but will still be a "long race".

A plan to subsidise Queenstown’s bus network would bring the resort in line with the rest of New Zealand, the network’s  operator says.

The Australian businessman who crashed his $20 million McLaren F1 sports car near Queenstown in December has been granted diversion by police.

Public transport in Queenstown is in for a radical overhaul.