Paul Taylor

Grassroots groups and the Government came together in Queenstown on Friday night to talk about local environmental issues and national policy.

Hundreds of people turned out in the Sunday sunshine for the annual St Joseph's Primary School book fair in Queenstown, including sisters Sylvia (5 front row, left) and Isabelle Quill (3), and...

Queenstown awoke to white-tipped mountains yesterday morning as the resort gears up for the 2019 ski season.

A rock climber with an injured leg was rescued from Queenstown's Remarkables mountain range at the weekend following a nine-hour operation hampered by poor weather.

One hundred and 18 years and one day after Queenstown hotelier Eliza Jane Johnston helped officially open Skippers Bridge, three generations of her family returned to celebrate the engineering feat.

More than $7000 has been raised for a man left with "severe neck and spinal injuries" following a Queenstown car crash on Monday.

Queenstown’s new $20million marina is finally taking shape and the curved breakwater and the first floating berths are in place.

"Farcical ... premature ... unfair". That's the opinion of a Queenstown lobby group on the coming  visitor levy referendum and the preferred option of a 5%-10% bed tax.

A bed tax of 5%-10% targeting all short-term accommodation including Airbnb is the preferred option for Queenstown's visitor levy.

A German woman found in a crashed car in Queenstown remains in a coma and will likely be in hospital for months, Queenstown Police say.

Housing and Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford has confirmed more than 300 homes - including 100 KiwiBuild homes - will be built on the former Wakatipu High School site.

While a visitor levy is seen as a panacea to Queenstown's many problems, there are moves afoot to create an economy that does not rely solely on the tourist dollar.

A Queenstown resident representing a group opposed to the development of a slice of woodland above the town says he does not think people realise the scale of what is proposed.

Queenstown police have charged a man with dangerous driving, after he allegedly crashed a car into a town centre tourism premises.

Queenstown Police have charged a man with dangerous driving after he allegedly crashed into a town centre tourism premises.

Shoulder-to-shoulder battles over 51km of rugged country were the order of the day at the Motatapu ultra run on Saturday.

NZSKI chief executive Paul Anderson has confirmed a $16million replacement chairlift at The Remarkables skifield in Queenstown will not be ready for this winter.