Tracey Roxburgh

Queenstown Chamber of Commerce chief executive Anna Mickell is unsure how a planned council project will affect residents in the resort.

New parking permits, including for small passenger service vehicles, will come into effect in the Queenstown Lakes district on July 1.

A 44-year-old Queenstown man has been charged in relation to an April 1 burglary in Queenstown in which valuable property was stolen.

The victim of a one-punch attack in Cow Lane last month has made a ''remarkable recovery''.

Luxury vehicles and a large amount of jewellery were taken in a significant burglary of a Queenstown property, police say.

Police are continuing to investigate the cause of a crash which left a 22-year-old German in a serious condition in Dunedin Hospital after she was abandoned in a car for more than four hours.

The victim of a one punch attack in Cow Lane last month has made a ''remarkable recovery''.

 To outsiders they probably looked as though they had lost their marbles.

Only one submission was received in opposition to a planned hotel near the Queenstown CBD, proposed to comprise 393 guest rooms in four buildings.

Queenstown will ditch its Anzac Day march after advice from police due to security fears and the international nature of the resort town.

A convicted sex offender was living in Wanaka for more than two months before the police found out he had relocated.

The winner of an annual Wakatipu High School Anzac Day speech competition cried while writing her speech - a letter to an unknown, fallen soldier.

A transtasman consortium has been appointed as the preferred bidder for a key piece of Queenstown land.

A proposal  for a subdivision in Arrowtown is headed to the Environment Court.

A Queenstown developer is "astonished" the Queenstown Lakes District Council is opposed to his proposed charitable tennis academy in Bridesdale Farm, near Queenstown.

A man sleeping in his vehicle with a knife beside his pillow and a hatchet above a sun visor told police he had the weapons ''for protection''.

Destination Queenstown (DQ) will ask the Queenstown Lakes District Council for a $900,000 funding boost from the tourism promotion levy for the next financial year.

A 44-year-old Queenstown man arrested following a search warrant this morning has been remanded in custody by Judge Kevin Phillips.

Destination Queenstown will seek a $900,000 funding increase from the Queenstown Lakes District Council after members this morning voted in favour of the move. 

A 30-year-old man sleeping in his vehicle with a knife by his pillow and a hatchet above a sun visor told police he had the weapons ''for protection''.