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

A young Briton is in a Christchurch spinal unit after breaking his back in a Queenstown tree climbing fall.

A dad and three children escaped uninjured when their car burst into flames in Queenstown.

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.

The father of the 22-year-old Queenstown man at the centre of an alleged kidnapping has asked for privacy to allow his son to recover from the ordeal.

Danielle Wright and family share the water with albatrosses, bottlenose dolphins and sea lions on a wilderness cruise through Doubtful Sound.

The newlyweds who ended up in court after a honeymoon fruit fight have been invited to spend their first anniversary back in Queenstown for free.

A honeymooning couple who were arrested and both charged with assault following a fruit fight at an exclusive Queenstown hotel have been granted diversion.

The owners of two dogs that mauled a 3-year-old boy in Queenstown this week are ''distraught'', his mother says.

Skyline Queenstown has won a top tourist industry accolade, taking out the inaugural ServiceIQ Visitor Experience Award.

Queenstown wants airlines to put on extra planes from Auckland and Christchurch to soak up an expected summer surge in Asian tourists.

Andrew Louis lives like a king in a deluxe suite.

The case of a bouncer accused of taking footage of England captain Mike Tindall flirting with an ex in a bar must answer a simple question. Are digital files 'property'?

Thick smoke from a farmer's burn-off blanketed Wanaka for much of yesterday afternoon, angering some residents and perplexing tourists.

A Chinese tourist has been charged with careless driving after her rental vehicle veered off the Queenstown to Glenorchy road and ended up on its side yesterday.

A Chinese tourist had her rental car contract torn up and rewritten by a rental company yesterday after she was pulled over for alleged dangerous driving.

A tourist was dressed in dark clothing and was probably distracted by stargazing when he was killed by a car on an unlit rural Queenstown road, a coroner has found.