Tracey Roxburgh

A group of Tucker Beach residents have been successful in their attempt to join an appeal against a farming family's bid to rezone its land, making way for a 200-plus home housing development.

Another day, another candidates meeting and another opportunity for residents to voice their frustrations over Queenstown Airport.

Two Queenstown police officers have received bravery awards for helping save a critically injured man's life.

Early plans for Queenstown's new independent hospital state it would have three operating theatres, seven recovery beds, 15 post-operative care beds and consultant rooms.

Candidates for local body elections who attended a meeting in Kingston yesterday comfortably outnumbered the residents who turned up to grill them.

Bill Metherell once wrote his own epitaph: "A life well lived".

Dirty water was discharged into Horne Creek, at the Village Green, on Tuesday night, but the Queenstown Lakes District Council is unable to say what it was, what caused it, or where it came from.

A new direct bus service is in the works for Lake Hayes and Shotover Country residents - but the trade-off is the loss of up to seven free car parks from near the CBD.

Detailed design and construction work will begin on a Queenstown Lakes District Council active transport travel network in the Wakatipu, but residents at Tucker Beach already have concerns.

Work is to begin immediately on a Local Bill for a proposed visitor levy for the Queenstown Lakes district, after Cabinet agreed to consider draft legislation.

The Queenstown Lakes District Council has been ordered to pay $43,700 in costs to Bunnings Ltd after the Environment Court found it "neglected its duty''.

A former NZSki employee believes 40 years, without periodic review, is too long for the company to have a concession over the Coronet Peak Recreation Reserve.

A young Queenstown police officer held a man's stomach together following an alleged stabbing in the resort last month, helping provide life-saving first aid.

Northlake Investments Ltd has appealed both the conviction and sentence handed down in the Environment Court by Judge Brian Dwyer yesterday.

Wilson Contractors prepare land near Arrowtown before the construction of a road to access Waterfall Park.