Matakauri Lodge offers royal treatment in a laidback setting, writes Michele Hewitson.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the bliss of this Queenstown haven.

With time on his hands, former Labour MP Darren Hughes now has the chance, should he wish, to complete this list of activities.

An "elixir of love" brought Italy victory in Queenstown's annual cocktail world cup on Friday night.

You have a finite supply of customers. It makes sense to keep the ones you have.

Aussie rules star denies urinating in street, attacking man who saw him.

The remains dug up in Kingston, south of Queenstown, today were possibly those of a sheep, say police.

A tramper from the Czech Republic who broke both legs after a sheer 30m fall on to jagged rocks in the Buckler Burn near Glenorchy on Lake Wakatipu, may have survived only because he landed on his pack.

The second ODI between New Zealand and Pakistan in Queenstown today has been abandoned because of rain.

Winning an international cricket series or getting as many players at the crease and in form ahead of the World Cup?

A 20-year-old man broke into a $2m luxury home in Queenstown and hosted an impromptu, seven-day alcohol-fuelled party for his friends.

New Zealand paceman Hamish Bennett is happy to find his way as a change bowler despite being an obvious candidate to open the bowling in one-day international cricket.

A fight during a ride-on lawn mower race at an A&P Show made it the 'best damn show' in years, a sponsor says.

A manager at a Wanaka mower and chainsaw shop saw red when his ride-on lawnmower was shunted by a bigger machine.

A hunter has told of an agonising night spent with the body of a dead friend in the South Island wilderness.