Todd Barclay: National MP, former tobacco lobbyist, and now in the thick of it.

The Gulfstream jet had blocked credentials when it landed in Wellington last night.

Spying network Five Eyes is understood to be starting a week-long conference today.

Details emerge of the VIPs expected in Queenstown this weekend.

A "very, very important person" is about to visit New Zealand - but who is it?

A solo paraglider was seriously injured after plunging about 9m to the ground near Arrowtown last night.

A search and rescue operation just outside Arrowtown yesterday was the third in the wider Queenstown area within a week.

Did the creation of an 'urban boundary' cause Arrowtown prices to go through the roof?

A family has been left shaken by a road rage incident at the weekend in which a man allegedly forced their vehicle off the road several times, police say.

Millbrook Resort plans to spend $50 million on a new golf and residential development.

If your stance on foreign ownership of prized New Zealand countryside is black or white, the case of Robert "Mutt" Lange reveals issues that are far from clear-cut.

Amended charges will be filed against three men facing kidnapping charges to include a third complainant.

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Shandelle Battersby enjoys a luxurious stay at the Millbrook Resort, Arrowtown.

Links with the past are strong in this town built on gold, writes Elisabeth Easther.

'We don't want trash renting cheap houses.' Submissions like that against a new housing development in Arrowtown have outraged a young mum.

The woman who stole an art work in a brazen theft from the Lakes District Museum in Arrowtown was arrested last night in Te Anau.

Police are hunting a woman dressed in a large overcoat who strode into the Lakes Districts Museum and stole a large silk kimono.

Jarrod Allan Mangles, who murdered Arrowtown woman Maureen McKinnel 25 years ago, has been declined parole as he "poses an undue risk to the safety of the community".

Queenstown Police are appealing for help catching a thief who has stolen women's clothing from an Arrowtown address - on two separate occasions.

A strong magnitude 5.3 earthquake has rocked much of the West Coast and Otago this morning.