Queenstown is becoming a popular retirement destination for baby-boomers, a report shows.

Pair kept up by parties & the sound of people having sex due to Queenstown's rent crisis.

Home coffee-brewing classes and a tour of a private winery are among the NZ adventures.

Emergency services say it is lucky nobody died after cyclone debbie.

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.

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.

Man claims his phone was calling his estranged wife every time he said "b****".

Police don't know how many people were in car that caught fire after tourist-bus crash.

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.

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.

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.