A prominent Queenstown businessman who crashed a Harley-Davidson motorcycle while on a joyride, injuring himself and a friend, is defending a charge of aggravated careless driving.

An experienced helicopter pilot who died after hitting a power line in Marlborough last week is being described as “a big-hearted man” with a passion for flying.

One person has been killed after a helicopter crashed into the sea in French Pass.

Women outweigh the men in Queenstown's first official marathon, says Rachel Grunwell.

The lakeside drive from Queenstown to Glenorchy lives up to its billing as one of New Zealand's most scenic roads - it just gets better at every bend as the north Wakatipu basin reveals....

If your stance on foreign ownership of prized New Zealand countryside is black or white, the case of Robert "Mutt" Lange reveals issues that are far from clear-cut.

Representatives of a helicopter company which employed two men who died in a crash on Thursday are due to be interviewed by specialist investigators today.

Aviation bosses have ordered the biggest grounding of aircraft in the country's history amid fears a helicopter fault may be behind the deaths of two men.

Queenstown man Verdun Waghorn was a UFO sceptic - until he photographed one. Now he wants to know if the truth is out there.

A man who crashed a drone into a Queenstown hotel and then left the scene could be prosecuted for breaking civil aviation rules.

The parents of Corey Docherty, who died after being found in a Queenstown alleyway, have arrived in NZ, and his grandfather says he was "living his dream".

Plans for a huge expansion of New Zealand's most luxurious golfing and lifestyle resort have been unveiled today.

A tourist, who suffered 'significant' injuries after a fall in a Queenstown alleyway, died in exactly the same spot and manner as a British tourist six years ago.

Friends of 22 year-old Corey Docherty, who died yesterday after he was found in a Queenstown alleyway, have already raised more than $15,000 for his family.

Hundreds of overseas tourists caught freedom camping illegally in the Queenstown Lakes area are leaving the country without paying the $200 fine.

Queenstown's harbourmaster isn't impressed after four men he advised to get off their inflatable airbed floated under bungy jumpers - and were fined.

The object that flew through a windscreen, killing a young driver, has never been found - and now a coroner has said, it's unlikely that it ever will be.

A Queenstown jet-boat operator says trying to find out how one of its boats hit a rock, injuring six tourists, is proving 'frustrating'.

A 12-year-old girl remains in hospital following a jetboat crash near Queenstown yesterday.

An English tourist was fighting for his life last night, after a mountain bike crash near Queenstown.

A taxi firm boss whose driver was racially insulted by an off-duty Queenstown policewoman says the company is relieved she has resigned.

A police officer who racially abused a taxi driver in Queenstown last year has resigned.

Amended charges will be filed against three men facing kidnapping charges to include a third complainant.

Queenstown police have located the third person wanted in connection with an alleged kidnapping.

The father of a Queenstown woman caught up in an investigation into an alleged kidnapping has called for her safe return.