Tracey Roxburgh

A Queenstown woman made an impassioned plea to the Queenstown Lakes District Council yesterday to do all it could to address dangerous driving in the district.

Former Wakatipu High School pupil who sold drugs to fellow teenagers will spend the next 10 months in prison.

A proposed change to the historic listing of the Kingston Flyer under the Queenstown Lakes District Plan could ultimately see the steam train moved from the district.

A $10 million, 195-berth marina on Lake Wakatipu has been approved by the Otago Regional and Queenstown Lakes District Councils - subject to 88 conditions.

Government representatives will discuss critical issues around staff recruitment and retention with tourism operators in the Queenstown Lakes District next month.

Seats on outbound flights to Christchurch and Auckland from Queenstown are as scarce as hen's teeth over the next week - and airlines are blaming the Year of the Sheep.

A commemorative stamp will be issued later this year to mark the centenary of one of Arrowtown's most photographed buildings.

After narrowly missing out on a place on a global Monopoly board in 2008, Queenstown has been given a second chance in the 2015 version.

Armed Queenstown Police officers were called to a Marina Dr address in the resort on Saturday night responding to a report of a man wielding an axe.

Eighteen months after one of Queenstown's top dressage horses had its tail hair hacked off by vandals, it is on the way to the Horse of the Year competition.

Dangerous tourist drivers whose rental vehicle contracts have been cancelled will be blacklisted in a Queenstown trial to prevent them from getting back behind the wheel.

A search and rescue operation is underway near Queenstown after a German tourist failed to return a locator beacon by his "panic date".

The New Zealand Open's wish has been granted.

Farmers are being urged to mitigate the risk of fire on their properties, with dry conditions resulting in daily fire callouts in the Otago Rural region.