Paul Taylor

Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis made no mention of Queenstown's tourism levy referendum in a prepared speech to the inaugural Otago Tourism Policy School conference in the resort yesterday morning.

Police want to trace a green American-style muscle car clocked at 176kmh on State Highway 6 at Gibbston.

Queenstown police believe a fleeing driver sparked a 20sqm scrub fire in a posh rural suburb on Tuesday evening.

Queenstown police believe a fleeing driver sparked a 20sqm scrub fire in a posh rural suburb yesterday evening.

Queenstown Airport's latest plan of action appears to be "spin designed to deflect rather than reflect'' community concerns, according to at least one campaigner.

Queenstown Airport has officially entered a holding pattern after public outcry over plans to double its capacity.

They stood in their dressing gowns and looked to the skies.

Hundreds of riders hit the tracks around Queenstown over the weekend to remember one of the resort’s most energising characters.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is understood to have landed in Queenstown yesterday afternoon - perhaps visiting his old mate Josh Emett.

Firefighters used a jet-boat to rescue a dog after it spent a night marooned on a Queenstown river bluff.

A tramper has been rescued by helicopter from Roses Hut on the Motatapu Track this morning after injuring his leg.

A father whose boat sank in Queenstown on New Year's Eve said he and the children aboard had ''less than a minute'' to abandon ship.

Two young swimmers had a lucky escape on the Clutha River yesterday, after they got tangled in willow trees ''strainers''.

A helicopter firm will be able to sue a South African company for nearly $900,000 in New Zealand courts after a High Court ruling.