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

Two crashes in as many days resulted in vehicles rolling after incidents in Queenstown over the weekend.

This will be a good weekend to check out the museum or cuddle up with a book as heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast for parts of the country.

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.

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.

Elderly American man died after a bus reversed into him in Queenstown.

An Arrowtown couple and their child have been left homeless after a fire in their rental property yesterday afternoon.

A former Queenstown Resort College student who died in France earlier this week had a carefree and adventurous approach to life, a former tutor says.

Queenstown is not in danger of having too many shops, a developer says, as as a $100m project is unveiled.

The Czech tourist who watched her partner fall to his death on the Routeburn Track has been touched by tragedy in the mountains before.

Kea researcher Paul van Klink has raised the issue that giving Keas mountain cafe food is damaging the birds' health.

Immigration NZ is changing its practices following the case of the 18-year-old French au pair who was locked in a Queenstown police cell while waiting to be deported.

Joanna Hunkin lives the champagne lifestyle in Queenstown during a weekend loaded with luxury.

WATCH: Developer Alastair Porter is aiming to build $50 million, 9.8km Queenstown attraction.

Border police send reality star Gary 'Gaz' Beadle packing.

A 23-year-old Australian visitor holidaying in Queenstown is missing after wandering off from his group of friends.

A Queenstown youth wrote the threatening note that caused a bomb scare at the resort's airport last month.

Fire chiefs will consider pamphleting short-term visitor accommodation such as Airbnb after a fire gutted a Queenstown holiday let.

The operator of a new low-rise development joined to a historic hotel predicts it will command New Zealand's most expensive new hotel room rate at $10,000 a night.

A new development joined to a historic hotel is set to become NZ's most expensive new hotel room rate at $10k a night.

Large areas of black ice causes road chaos across the South Island.

AJ Hackett Bungy has "sincerely apologised'' to a customer who it says received "a fright'' when they fell unexpectedly from a jump pod 160m-high.