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The Duchess of Cambridge is under fire once more this time suffering a mauling at the hands of a prominent human rights activist. Joan Smith devotes an entire chapter of her new book The Public Woman to the pregnant 31-year-old. Smith, who turned ...

SkyCity Entertainment Group has bought out rival Lasseters to control all of Queenstown's casino market. Nigel Morrison, SkyCity chief executive, said $5 million was paid for Otago Casinos which holds the licence for the Lasseters Wharf Casino. The ...

Ella Langsford, 20, was crowned Miss New Zealand last month and heads to Jakarta in September to compete against beauty queens from around the world. The daughter of Auckland art dealer Gary Langsford, she is studying for a business degree and works ...

Travel Bite : Travel News MSN NZ Queenstown (Thinkstock) More about Travel news: Topics: Travel newsQueenstownNew ZealandOtago Queenstown has been voted one of the world's top holiday destinations, by a leading travel website. The four season lake ...

Queenstown is the world's 25th best destination, according to TripAdvisor. The global travel website released its latest survey results yesterday. Queenstown was ranked first in New Zealand, second in the South Pacific and 25th worldwide. It was ...

SkyCity Entertainment Group has agreed to buy Queenstown's Wharf Casino for $5 million from Malaysia's Lasseters, adding 74 electronic gaming machines and six gaming tables to its existing operations in the resort town. The deal is subject to ...

10:54pm BST WELLINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) - New Zealand casino operator SkyCity Entertainment Group has bought Wharf Casino in the resort town of Queenstown for NZ$5 million ($4.04 million) as the company aims to expand its presence in the area, a ...

A Queenstown waitress crashed her car while drink driving and then told police it had been stolen. Kate Alexandra Kostick was sentenced to 100 hours community work at Queenstown District Court on Monday. The 24-year-old, from the UK, admitted ...