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A survey conducted by the Wanaka Stakeholders Group (WSG) membership, which was also open to the general public, has found that 74 percent of respondents oppose a new international airport planned...

Otago regional councillors are apprehensive about contributing to a proposed $200million spend on transport projects for Queenstown, if the resort is at risk of becoming a “boarded-up ghost town”. Councillors were...

Following coverage by Crux and a complaint from the NZ Taxpayers Union, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) has started the early stages of an investigation into QLDC’s expenditure of $630,000...

Photo: RNZ / Timothy Brown Three-quarters of Upper Clutha residents are against a proposed international airport at Tarras. In July, Christchurch Airport shocked the small rural Central Otago settlement by announcing it...

Wanaka Stakeholders Group (WSG) chairman Michael Ross is calling for “bold leadership” from central government after a survey showed almost three-quarters of respondents are against a new airport at Tarras. Mr...

The French government announced Thursday that it wants to scrap plans to expand Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. The Minister of Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili, said that the project, which called for...

Since the announcement by CIAL (Christchurch International Airport Limited) about their airport plans for Tarras, we’ve been asked for Wanaka Stakeholders Group’s view. In January 2021, we surveyed our members to...

Concerns about access to mental health services and an overreliance on tourism were among the issues raised in a survey of Queenstown Lakes residents. The third annual QLDC Quality of Life...

Pollution from power plants, vehicles and other sources accounted for one in five of all deaths that year, more detailed analysis reveals Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels...

Approving new terminal plans would be “fundamentally wrong”, politicians and academics say. Leeds MPs and academics have signed an open letter urging councillors to reject plans to expand Leeds Bradford Airport....