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.

Ross Allan says his children are distraught after their $1000 Abyssinian moggy was shot dead by a neighbour who thought it was feral.

Struggling Allied Farmers says it has settled the about $27m sale of stage two of Queenstown's Five Mile property development early.

There's a swathe of bedtime reading available at the Securities Commission

The man behind the $27m purchase of a Queenstown property development from Allied Farmers is declining to say how the deal is being financed amid speculation Allied may be helping him.

A shoplifting spree in Queenstown has concluded with four boys expelled from their Melbourne school.

Pacific Blue says the pilots of a plane that may have breached flight rules when taking off from Queenstown airport have been stood down.