Local commentators apportion much of the blame to the rise of Airbnb.

The hotel would accommodate up to 450 guests in two wings of three and four levels.

Freedom campers have been snapped sleeping under trees in Queenstown.

Queenstown space so tight that tenants now being offered bunks and 'kind of' single rooms.

Lee was sentenced to four months' home detention and ordered to pay reparation.

Police have confirmed the two men who died are believed to be tourists from Germany.

The person has been taken to hospital after crashing on Crown Range, near Queenstown.

Man who blamed voice-activated 'Siri' program for dozens of calls guilty of harassment.

A car and a bus carrying 16 tourists collided on the Te Anau-Milford Highway.

The Remarkables skifield will soon install a new enclosed conveyor lift for their learner slopes.

State Highway 6 is down to one lane in the Kawarau Gorge after a crash.

Two women were asleep when the man entered their Queenstown hotel room about 4.30am to steal cash

Police say drivers doing burnouts in the Queenstown Lakes area are putting other road users' lives at risk.

Rise follows another record-breaking year, with overseas visitors nearing 3.5m.

A woman seriously injured in a hit and run incident and remains in a coma in Dunedin Hospital.

Queenstown police drafted in officers from Wanaka and Alexandra to help shut down a rowdy party more than 300 people attended.

Driver involved in alleged hit and run in Queenstown has been located.

Police are looking for the driver of a silver station wagon after it was involved in a hit and run in Queenstown tonight.

Three people were hurt in a two-car crash at Devil's Staircase at Lake Wakatipu.

Reese Witherspoon's Kiwi love affair has come to an end, with the Oscar-winning actress "sad to say goodbye" to New Zealand.

Bill English will only let his ministers take partners on overseas trips if there is a need for it.

A Queenstown consortium has bought historic steam train.

Cops are warning of a serial masturbator in Queenstown.

Australian businessman gets diversion after crashing his $20m supercar near Queenstown.

The driver, captured in footage shot on the Crown Range, ignored repeated efforts to make him pull over.

Hollywood leading ladies Reese Witherspoon is lapping up the luxury of Queenstown, and taking to social media to brag about her idyllic Kiwi trip.

Farmers in Central Otago hope a new method of biological control will give them some respite from the rabbit problem.

Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling are jumping for joy in southern paradise as they make the most of their time in New Zealand.

Prime Minister Bill English has scrapped his day's schedule to head to Christchurch instead.

Police are investigating the ''moronic'' actions of a person who tied fishing line at head height across a Queenstown track.