Protect Wanaka

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...

Otago’s first region-wide greenhouse gas emissions report will be completed next year. Otago Regional Council strategy manager Anne Duncan said the council received six proposals to complete the baseline study and...

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...

A group fighting against development of Wānaka Airport claims the airport’s owners are not being upfront with the community about its plans. Wānaka Airport and its sister facility in Queenstown are...

From the Wanaka Stakeholders Group. A group of thousands of Wānaka residents is most concerned that the public has been misled by Queenstown Airport Corporation (QAC) and Queenstown Lakes District Council...

The Queenstown Airport Corporation’s (QAC) statement of intent outlining that QAC would not seek to expand air noise boundaries at Queenstown Airport, nor progress plans to develop Wānaka Airport, until June...

The inaugural Sounds Air Wanaka to Christchurch service took off in perfect conditions this morning with a full contingent of nine passengers. Operating out of the building once used by Air...

The Queenstown Airport Corporation’s Deputy Chair, Simon Flood, managed to achieve something today that his management team has so far struggled to achieve – credible communication. Speaking at a packed full...

Queenstown Lakes councillors will decide today whether to sign off Queenstown Airport’s plans for the next three years. The impact of Covid has been a huge reduction in the level of...