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Covid-19 has caused economic pain throughout the country, but nowhere more than the lower South Island where the number of people on the Jobseeker benefit has increased. Unsurprisingly tourist mecca Queenstown...
The Queenstown Lakes District Council is seeking legal advice over Christchurch International Airport Ltd’s plans to establish an airport at Tarras. Last week the Otago Daily Times reported Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult...
Freedom camping isn’t free. If the campers aren’t paying for power and toilets at facilities built for them, ratepayers are picking up the tab for parking spaces and cleaning up after...
Queenstown Lakes Mayor Jim Boult has labelled a move by Christchurch City Council to profit from the district a “predatory activity” designed, he says, to attack the value of Queenstown Airport....
Tourism Minister Stuart Nash has hinted a solution is coming for worker shortages faced by New Zealand’s under-pressure tourism sector. Desperate Queenstown tourism operators have called on the Government to extend...
Labour’s new Tourism Minister Stuart Nash hit the ground running in Queenstown today, flagging big changes to the industry that include a ban on non-self-contained camper vans, a tough stance on companies that...
We’re kidding ourselves if we think we can continue to ship goods and fly the way we have been, Climate Change Commission chairman Dr Rod Carr says. Carr was asked about...
Opinion: Mark Sinclair discusses the dangers of big business deciding the future of communities. Covid-19 has had many negative impacts. But there have been some silver linings. One has been the...
Wānaka resident Anne Urlwin has been appointed as one of three new directors to the Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC)’s Board of Directors. Urlwin is a director of Precinct Properties New Zealand...
Will they compromise, will one back down or will the Lakes district end up with three international airports a short drive from each other? Mark Price questions Christchurch International Airport Ltd project...