Tourist drank a bottle of vodka before throwing punches, biting a man and abusing and assaulting police in eight-hour Queenstown rampage.

Queenstown's Mount Nicholas station cruise is both epic and intimate, writes Paul Rush.

Tennessy Weir checks into a sophisticated boutique hotel in Queenstown.

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

Allan Dixon is parlaying a childhood spent taking videos and photos into a way of life.

Rugged-up supermodel takes an icecream break in Queenstown.

The closer to Antarctica, the hotter the property market gets.

It was the 30 hours from hell, but yesterday Robert Galdamez and his mother Pany were counting their blessings.

Shandelle Battersby checks into a beautiful property with an exceptional restaurant.

A search and rescue operation is under way in Queenstown after an Australian tourist failed to return from a day walk on Ben Lomond.

Richard Beven spent the money he stole on travel, cars, casinos, meals and alcohol, and a 40th birthday party for himself at exclusive golf club The Hills.

Queenstown has been named the top destination in Australasia and Air New Zealand named the best way of getting there in global travel awards.

The price of the sections in the new subdivison ranged from $215,000 to $290,000.

NZ Post has moved to reassure people their post is safe, following a number of incidents.

The major threat that the South Island's Alpine Fault poses to New Zealand has been front and centre of a Civil Defence conference in Queenstown this week.

Queenstown novice Dan Ahwa experiences the resort town's extreme, adrenaline-fuelled activities for the first time.

A Frenchman who stole forfeited cigarettes from a Customs drop-bin while working at an airport as a cleaner has escaped without a conviction.

Wellington house values rose 21 per cent in the last year, outstripping Auckland's 15 per cent, but Queenstown values are rising fastest.

Queenstown's bar community is in mourning after one of its own died in an eerie car crash.

Unusual items have been blocking Queenstown's sewer systems lately, with a soggy bathmat being the latest. Half a coconut was pulled

Asian investors who refused to settle on Queenstown apartments during the global financial crisis have won a landmark case.

Smoke blanketed Queenstown yesterday as the result of a burn-off on land on the other side of Lake Wakatipu owned by tourism giant Real Journeys.

Four Queenstown men are lucky to be alive after their kayaks overturned and they were swept out to sea off the Otago coast.

A judge has labelled an Arrowtown road rage incident as an "appalling piece of behaviour" while a couple was assaulted while their kids were in the car.

Queenstown's top cop is failing to front after officers were caught cherry-picking what they're telling the media.

It'll cost you up to $10,000 a night, but you will get million dollar views. A new hotel complex has been completed in Queenstown

A Sydney man proposed to his girlfriend moments after their helicopter crashed near Queenstown this week.

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

A helicopter with six people on board has rolled over while attempting a snow landing on the Crown Range near Queenstown this afternoon.

Property values in one former gold mining town have hit the roof.