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Tuesday 7th : February : 2023

Crux is the issues and action focussed local news site for Queenstown, Wanaka and Central Otago

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Kiwi’s death in Austrian avalanche: Christchurch school reeling

The Canterbury teen was striving for an international ski career

Feb 07,2023

Q'town's 18-year-old Ruby Andrews in ski career first

Tangled $17 million web of Shotover water pipes

Score card: Mayor Glyn Lewers after 100 days

Two years after ZQN7: QLDC hires consultants to wr…

Long-term planning needed urgently, resigning hosp…

National News

Rare green comet set to appear in New Zealand skies

Kiwi’s death in Austrian avalanche: Christchurch school reeling

Fire kills 50,000 chickens at Waikato farm

Austrian avalanche death: Will Cookson aimed for international ski career

Kiwi teenager killed in Austrian avalanche

South Island motorists urged to take care with bad weather forecast

Heavy rain and wind warnings for the south

Chateau Tongariro to close permanently on 5 February

Auckland floods: mayor calls media 'drongos' after having to cancel tennis

Auckland floods: emergency alert as more rain forecast

Auckland flooding: death toll rises to three

Auckland flooding: Two dead, at least two missing

Double threat: A real estate agency to watch out for

Aotearoa's first ever Fluker Post comes to Wānaka

Young local riders headed for Morocco

Onsite electrical repair day at Wastebusters

Can your dead home appliance be resuscitated?

Feb 07,2023

Rave at The Cave to celebrate new youth centre

There's a new space for 11-plus year olds to hang in Hāwea

Feb 07,2023

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Water users urged to use resource more efficiently

Funding boost for local age friendly projects

Double threat: A real estate agency to watch out f…

Aotearoa's first ever Fluker Post comes to Wānaka

Unprecedented bird discovery on Hāwea lakeshore stroll

petrina bird

by Lauren Pattemore - Feb 03,2023

Proof scientific finds can happen at any time, when you least expect it

Two backcountry Wānaka rescues as rivers rise

Makarora River Pixabay

by Kim Bowden - Feb 03,2023

Police say the high waters are a danger and people need to plan tramps

Plans public for controversial Q'town building site

Hallenstein and York Streets development Safari Group

by Kim Bowden - Feb 03,2023

The Hallenstein Street block's been empty for years

John Glover to contest Arrowtown/Kawarau by-election

John Glover

Feb 02,2023

The by-election has been prompted by Neeta Shetty's resignation

Clyde data centre company in liquidation

Clyde Data Centre and Dam Feb 2023 Kim

by Kim Bowden - Feb 02,2023

It's not clear what effect the collapse will have on Contact Energy and Aurora

Good Samaritan fined $40 after stopping for stranded bus passenger

Kaari Schlebach bus stop fine Feb 2023

by Lauren Pattemore - Feb 02,2023

Rules are rules: QLDC

Q'town's iconic $24m mini golf course on the market

Mini golf site for development v2

by Kim Bowden - Feb 02,2023

But it's not mini golf buyers will be focussed on

Fatboy Slim buses are on, finally

Fatboy Slim Facebook Endaevour Live

by Kim Bowden - Feb 01,2023

But seats are limited

Councillor Neeta Shetty resigns

Neeta Shetty QLDC resignation Feb 2023

by Kim Bowden - Feb 01,2023

It triggers a by-election for the Arrowtown-Kawarau Ward

100km's too fast for blind corner, Hāwea Flat says

kane road

by Lauren Pattemore - Feb 01,2023

Their calls for a lowered speed limit are growing louder

Tony Malkin Empire State

$100,000 mystery donation to Queenstown's firefighters

by Lauren Pattemore - Feb 01,2023

Flamingo escooter Facebook

No e-scooters for Wānaka, for now

by Kim Bowden - Feb 01,2023

central lakes patient room v2

Q'town's private hospital treats out-of-town public patients

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 31,2023

Airbnb Queenstown

Legal defeat for QLDC attempt to limit Airbnb

by Kim Bowden - Jan 31,2023

Lowburn Crash Jan 28 2023

Near tragedy in water park three vehicle crash

by Kim Bowden - Jan 31,2023

Cromwell by election group shot candidates meeting Jan 2023

Seven fight it out in crowded Cromwell by-election

by Kim Bowden - Jan 31,2023

Locals step in as bus service fails

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 30,2023

Lakeview Feature 2022

Crux joins RNZ regional roundup

Jan 30,2023

QLDC filming One Lane Bridge

Screenwriters to pitch local drama in QLDC-backed residency

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 27,2023

We're not rural and our hospital shouldn't be either: Mayor

by Kim Bowden and Lauren Pattemore - Jan 27,2023

Tarras proposed flight path MR

Academic heavy-hitters want Tarras Airport plans shelved

by Kim Bowden - Jan 26,2023

Dalefield fire feature 1 1 23

FENZ Dalefield fireworks answers still missing in action

by Peter Newport - Jan 26,2023

Mt Iron intersection Wanaka google street view Jan 2023

Contractor awarded $5m Wānaka roundabout after Cromwell mistakes

by Kim Bowden - Jan 25,2023

Cromwell parking sign Jan 2023

CODC: Free parking era may be coming to an end

by Kim Bowden - Jan 25,2023

Glenorchy river Pixabay Alex Hu

Mystery grows as more dead ducks wash up in Glenorchy

by Kim Bowden - Jan 25,2023

Person seriously injured in Mt Aspiring paragliding crash

by Kim Bowden - Jan 24,2023

Queenstown's troublesome toilets under repair (again)

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 24,2023

Freedom camping generic January 2023 Lowburn

Q'town housing crisis: our homeless people who are not poor

by Kim Bowden - Jan 24,2023

Otago Rescue Helicopter takeoff Dunedin Public Hospital

$1.3 million annual hospital cost for Q'town chopper transfers

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 23,2023

Glenorchy homemade sign Facebook

Police name Australian visitor who drowned in Glenorchy

by Kim Bowden - Jan 23,2023

Lawn sprinkler water irrigation gardening Pixabay photo

Council eases Arrowtown water restrictions

Jan 22,2023

Arrowtown McDonnell Road

Arrowtown: QLDC bans all outside water use

Jan 21,2023

Chris Hipkins 1

Chris Hipkins to be Prime Minister

Jan 21,2023

Skippers Road fire FENZ Jan 2023 4

Helicopters water-bomb hotspots after Skippers Road blaze

by Kim Bowden - Jan 20,2023

Body found after second drowning in Glenorchy

by Kim Bowden - Jan 20,2023

Horne Creek 19 Jan 2023 v2

'Busiest day' in years for pollution watchdogs

by Kim Bowden - Jan 20,2023

Water Park No Stopping Lowburn

Police charges follow Lowburn water park crash

by Kim Bowden - Jan 20,2023

Glenorchy homemade sign Facebook cropped

QLDC to put warning signs at site of Glenorchy drownings

by Kim Bowden - Jan 20,2023

Skipper Road fire FENZ Jan 2023

Fire crews reign in large wildfire on Skippers Road

by Kim Bowden - Jan 20,2023

Update: Last-minute bus scramble for Fatboy Slim

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 20,2023

Coronet fire MR feature

Fire crews continue to fight Coronet blaze

Jan 20,2023

Glenorchy Lake Wide MR 2

Police dive squad called in to Glenorchy drowning search

Jan 20,2023

Glyn Lewers Main

Mayor Lewers launches full attack on ORC as bus service fails

by Kim Bowden - Jan 19,2023

Chopper search 19 Jan

Update: No success in search for missing swimmer

Jan 19,2023

Buckler Burn map

Pollution scare in Glenorchy as ORC tests dead animals

by Peter Newport - Jan 19,2023

Wānaka supermarkets cop $750 fines for Good Friday opening

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 19,2023

Toxic algae Hanleys Farm ORC Jan 2023

Hanleys Farm algae a danger to dogs

by Kim Bowden - Jan 19,2023

Queenstown firefighters save property from fire

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 19,2023

Horne Creek 19 Jan 2023

Household sewage enters Horne Creek after plumbing mix-up

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 19,2023

Wellington's attracted 100, so where's Queenstown's bus drivers?

by Lauren Pattemore - Jan 18,2023

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