A US billionaire is adding one of NZ's top luxury lodges to his NZ portfolio.

No support for debt-ridden tourist icon the Kingston Flyer.

A Coroner has been unable to establish what led an Israeli tourist to leave tramping route for an avalanche track where she broke her neck.

A snowboarder killed in an avalanche near Queenstown had recently met someone, fallen in love and was in a 'really happy space'.

A Queenstown man was killed at Coronet Peak yesterday when a member of his group triggered an avalanche that buried him in over two metres of snow.

A snowboarder died in hospital after being rescued from an avalanche at Queenstown's Coronet Peak ski resort last night.