The bodies of two kayakers were found on Lake Wakatipu this morning.

If you want Christmas Day to really be a holiday, book yourself into a restaurant and let the staff do all the work.

The long-term lease and boutique visitor accommodation business within Queenstown's historic Eichardt's Private Hotel looks set to be bought for less than $1 million by American billionaire Julian Robertson.

Hey there's Queenstown. Upside down. It's an unexpectedly excellent way to admire some of the world's most spectacular alpine scenery.

As you drive up the long tree-lined road into Millbrook Resort, you get the eerie sensation that you're leaving the world behind you.

All Black heart-throb Dan Carter hatched a plan to lure girlfriend Honor Dillon to Queenstown last weekend before asking her to marry him.

Allowing brothels to operate near playgrounds, schools or churches in central Otago resort towns is "unacceptable", a lobby group says.

A Queenstown man who went to Britain to get married was turned away at London's Heathrow airport as he didn't have the appropriate visa.

Auckland and Queenstown have again been confirmed as having the most unaffordable housing for locals.