Pilots flying aircraft into Wanaka Airport for the Warbirds
Over Wanaka airshow have been advised by the Civil Aviation
Authority to prepare for procedural changes to prevent their
trips becoming a "nightmare".
Assumptions about the Queenstown Lakes District Council's
responsibilities to pay for road works associated with the
proposed Dart Passage Tunnel will be discussed by its
infrastructure services committee meeting in Wanaka on
Tuesday.
Airspace rules were broken 11 times at Queenstown Airport
last year by light aircraft and adventure-related activity
operators, figures from New Zealand's national air navigation
provider service show.
A drunk Cromwell teenager drove up roads between Queenstown
and Wanaka one night at speeds of more than 180kmh and
sparked a police chase which only ended when the fleeing
vehicle's engine blew up.
Queenstown's fledgling health watchdog says it looks forward
to the outcome of a clinicians' forum on the controversial
issue of where a diagnostic scanner should go to serve both
Central and Lakes districts.
"Tindallgate" bouncer Jonathan Dixon was remanded without
plea in the Queenstown District Court yesterday when he
appeared on two charges of assault and causing grievous
bodily harm to two men outside a resort nightclub.
A 50-year-old Wanaka resident was sent to Whangarei to live
with his mother by Judge John Clapham in the Queenstown
District Court yesterday, after admitting his fourth
drink-driving offence.
