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.

NBC television journalist and host has bought property near Queenstown.

A motorcyclist posted a photo of themselves travelling more than twice the speed limit.

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.

The woman killed in a head-on crash near Queenstown yesterday was a 49-year-old Australian, police say.

Celebrities Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling are ready to "snuggle some sheep" during their stay in New Zealand. Witherspoon, who

A woman who survived a crash into Lake Wakatipu was initially trapped in her vehicle, police say.

NASA is heading back to Wanaka to launch its super balloons which orbit the globe performing scientific monitoring.

NASA has confirmed it will return to Wanaka to launch it's super-pressure balloon which will see the 18.8 million cubic foot balloon

Hollywood stars Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon have been spotted in Queenstown as the pair arrive in the country to shoot a new film.

In a separate incident, a man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a quad bike accident.

Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey are headed to New Zealand.

An ambulance and rescue helicopter are on their way to the isolated scene.

West Coast-Tasman MP Damien O'Connor has stoked the campaign to relocate the historic steam train the Kingston Flyer to the West Coast.

AJ Hackett Bungy staff have won praise from police and their boss for their response to a serious road crash outside the company's Queenstown operation.

The sun has come out to play and is here to stay, with a scorcher of a long weekend across the country.