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Tuesday 4th : October : 2022

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

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Research: earthquakes anticipated to be more violent than previously thought

The threat in Queenstown may have doubled

Oct 04,2022

Poll: Mitchell leads mayoral race

Wao: We’ve just got to get out of the car

Help Crux track the mayoral voting

Queenstown Writers Festival to give back by sharin…

Wānaka teens share stories of mental health challe…

National News

Research: earthquakes anticipated to be more violent than previously thought

Cold snap and snow forecast for later this week

Glacier towns frozen by lack of staffing, capacity as tourists return

Single-use plastics ban extended to cotton buds, meat trays, stirrers

Gloriavale received nearly $5m of govt money in 2021, court hears

Queenstown recruitment drive: hundreds more jobs than would-be employees

Government decision to deliver 3,000 more RSE workers to horticultural sector

Dunedin calls for 'long overdue' investment into South Island passenger rail

Jackson Bay road could be abandoned: Westland mayor

Three waters opponents vying for council likely powerless to stop it

Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Day: What you need to know

80% of NZ's low-lying lakes and rivers 'poor' or 'very poor' quality

People power needed to cloak Cromwell hill in natives

Local petrolhead smokes the competition at Cromwell burnout contest

Upper Clutha's first public transport trial ready to roll

Queenstown Writers Festival to give back by sharing books with Happiness House

Delivering books to families that may go without this Christmas

Oct 03,2022

People power needed to cloak Cromwell hill in natives

Cromwell's lake guardians are on a mission to reforest pockets of lakeside land

Sep 29,2022

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Zoi and her coach win top awards in Wānaka

Zoi Sadowski Synnott and coach Sean Thompson

Oct 01,2022

Major ceremony as snow athletes prepare to travel to the northern hemisphere

Mitchell leads mayoral race - but many yet to vote

Jon Mitchell MR

Oct 01,2022

Will a last minute rush change the game?

Voter turnout down with one week left until voting closes

Voting 2022 generic photo v2

by Kim Bowden - Sep 30,2022

What's stopping voters having their say?

Next year before Queenstown's bus timetable to be relied on: ORC boss

Orbus Facebook image

by Kim Bowden - Sep 30,2022

The regional council boss is inviting the QLDC to help govern public transport

Cromwell water park's future in limbo as LINZ licence stalls

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by Kim Bowden - Sep 29,2022

Traffic needs to be managed, but who pays?

Design experts battle over Lakeview's tall towers as decision looms

Lakeview towers 2a

by Kim Bowden - Sep 29,2022

Lakeview developer fights back: 'urban design is an art not a science'

Fire that trapped skiers on Remarkables brought under control

Remarkables fire Sep 28 2022

by Kim Bowden - Sep 28,2022

What started as a car fire spread to vegetation

'Pervasive' procurement problems at CODC: review

CODC

by Kim Bowden - Sep 28,2022

Rules for awarding tens of millions of dollars-worth of contracts have not been widely followed

QLDC electoral officer: no power to force removal of Lewers' claim

Olivia and Glyn

Sep 27,2022

The Local Electoral Act does not address potentially defamatory claims

Lewers’ mayoral campaign shown to contain serious misinformation: police involved

Glyn Lewers 3 edit

Sep 24,2022

"Conflict" campaign claims based on a list that may not exist

Olivia Wensley shops

Olivia Wensley: We need big thinking

by Olivia Wensley - Sep 23,2022

Copy of Alexandra Blossom Festival Saturday 37

Original 'Blossom Queen' heading back to Alexandra

by Kim Bowden and RNZ - Sep 22,2022

Clint Eastwood Mayor

Our new QLDC mayor as ambassador: what’s the job spec?

by Peter Newport - Sep 22,2022

Aircraft Qtown generic

Q'town airport bets on growth, offers smaller airport plan to Wānaka

by Peter Newport - Sep 22,2022

Impact100 announces five finalists for $168,000 in grants

Sep 21,2022

ORC candidates 2022

Hot battle for three Dunstan ORC seats

by Kim Bowden - Sep 21,2022

Voting 2022 generic photo

Migrants on new one-off resident visa eligible to vote in local elections

by Kim Bowden - Sep 20,2022

Esther Whitehead

Esther Whitehead: 'Spouting popular rhetoric is great but it’s rarely original'

by Esther Whitehead - Sep 20,2022

Neeta Shetty cropped

Neeta Shetty: 'I see how disenfranchised our community is'

by Neeta Shetty - Sep 20,2022

Jon Mitchell supplied

Jon Mitchell: A strategy for managed tourism growth

Sep 19,2022

Wao image option degrowth 2

Degrowth: is this where capitalism comes to die?

by Georgia Merton - Sep 17,2022

ORC candidates 2022

ORC: Who will best represent you?

by Kim Bowden - Sep 16,2022

Wanaka Upper Clutha ward candidates

Wānaka-Upper Clutha ward: Who will best represent you?

by Kim Bowden - Sep 16,2022

Queenstown Whakatipu candidates

Queenstown-Whakatipu ward: Who will best represent you?

by Kim Bowden - Sep 16,2022

Cromwell ward candidates v2

Cromwell ward: Who will best represent you?

by Kim Bowden - Sep 16,2022

Arrowtown Kawarau Ward candidates

Arrowtown-Kawarau ward: Who will best represent you?

by Kim Bowden - Sep 16,2022

Wanaka Upper Clutha Community Board

Wānaka-Upper Clutha Community Board: Who will best represent you?

by Kim Bowden - Sep 16,2022

The Crux 2022 Mayoral Candidate Debate

by Peter Newport - Sep 16,2022

Community verdict: Which QLDC mayoral candidate came out on top?

by Kim Bowden - Sep 16,2022

QLDC mayoral candidates debate cropped

New poll results on eve of Crux mayoral debate

Sep 15,2022

Peter Newport edited and cropped

QLDC elections: Why I’m standing – and why it matters

by Peter Newport - Sep 15,2022

Aramex depot courier drivers v2

Aramex to come under WorkSafe spotlight as drivers voice safety concerns

by Kim Bowden - Sep 14,2022

ODT subscriber 2

ODT paywall to launch September 20 - Crux stays free

Sep 13,2022

electoral mayor signs MR

Poll. Who is your current preferred QLDC mayoral candidate?

by Peter Newport - Sep 13,2022

Ombudsman feature

Ombudsman investigates QLDC as council launches lawyers against Crux

by Peter Newport - Sep 12,2022

Olivia Wensley Press Release cropped landscape

Olivia Wensley sole mayoral candidate with declared big backer

by Kim Bowden - Sep 12,2022

Wensley and Drury

The man backing Olivia Wensley: Rod Drury wants 'a new type of mayor for NZ'

by Peter Newport - Sep 12,2022

winter games Sep 11 feature

Watch - Winter Games ends in ideal conditions

by Peter Newport - Sep 11,2022

Winter Games Sep 10 winners

Locals score well in today's Winter Games events - Video

Sep 10,2022

Fork and Tap staff

Hospitality's local staff crisis - '90s mentality'

by Brydie Macbeth - Sep 09,2022

Sunflower lanyard

Woman with disability reduced to tears by Air NZ and Queenstown Airport

by Peter Newport - Sep 09,2022

Tarras signs feature MR

Tarras group claims Christchurch ratepayers being kept in the dark

by Kim Bowden - Sep 08,2022

Wanaka medical google shot

Wānaka doctors close after-hours services due to staff shortages

by Kim Bowden - Sep 08,2022

Police issue drugs warning ahead of Queenstown festival

by Kim Bowden - Sep 07,2022

Shotover waste plant

ORC invites public to make contact on Shotover effluent stench

by Peter Newport - Sep 07,2022

Cromwell events centre concept plans 5 Sep 2022

Grand design revealed for Cromwell's hall of the future

by Kim Bowden - Sep 07,2022

Arrowtown Long Lunch 2021 by Colin Walkington 2 copy

Arrowtown 'institution' canned due to restaurant staffing stress

by Kim Bowden - Sep 07,2022

Meta Boost Queenstown Nick McDonnell

Facebook launches new support for Q'town tourism operators

by Kim Bowden - Sep 07,2022

Elections 2022 billboards

Local elections - your chance to be part of Crux coverage

by Kim Bowden - Sep 06,2022

Slopestyle winners Ruby Andrews

Wānaka athletes top Freeski Slopestyle podiums at Cardrona

Sep 05,2022

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