As the jetboat enters a wide stretch of water on the Shotover River, our driver Mike Cammell waves his right hand in a circular motion - the predetermined signal to hold on to something tight as ...

The Maori-owned Shotover Jet races on the Shotover River in depths as shallow as about four inches in a 14-passenger jet boat, then enters the narrow canyons where the company has exclusive access.

Year-round, travellers might take high-speed rides on Lake Wakatipu and along the shallow whitewater rapids of the Shotover River town aboard the world's first fully electric jet boats.

Wastewater will be directly discharged into the Shotover River from Monday morning, the Queenstown Lakes District Council (QLDC) has confirmed. The council is enacting emergency powers under the ...

Helicopter rescue in Queenstown's Shotover River. A Queenstown jet-boat company has been fined $50,000 and ordered to pay $260,000 in reparation and emotional harm payments for a 2019 crash on the ...

All the action on day two of the GODZone adventure race is focused around the famous Skippers Canyon near Queenstown and the Shotover River. Whitewater rafting has been introduced for the first ...

A water protection group is weighing seeking an injunction to prevent Queenstown Lakes District Council from discharging treated sewage into the Shotover River. The council is planning to use ...

Detective Senior Constable Joshua Paroci died just metres from being rescued Photo / Supplied An Australian detective who drowned during a rafting trip on the Shotover River was only about a metre ...