Hawke's Bay Regional Council - Latest News [Page 16]
Funding Available for Driver Licence Training
Friday, 17 June 2016, 4:48 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is advertising the availability of funding for community groups to provide driver licence training throughout Hawke’s Bay. More >>
First winter air quality exceedance
Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 4:58 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
First winter air quality exceedance Hastings has had its first exceedance of the air quality standards this winter. On Sunday, the average level of PM10 measured at the St John’s air quality monitor site over a 24 hour period was 55 micrograms ... More >>
HBRC hears verbal submissions to Annual Plan
Friday, 3 June 2016, 1:56 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council will spend two days hearing and considering submissions to its draft Annual Plan 2016-17 and the proposed 2015-2025 Long Term Plan amendment. More >>
Rook Control Making Headway in Hawke’s Bay
Wednesday, 25 May 2016, 12:07 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Over the past four months, around 900 rooks have been removed from Hawke’s Bay following calls from farmers seeing birds on paddocks and crops. More >>
HBRC Environment & Services Committee Media Briefs
Thursday, 12 May 2016, 1:36 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Environment & Services Committee meeting was held at the Kohupātiki Marae yesterday. More >>
Kids 4 Drama Back in the Bay
Thursday, 5 May 2016, 12:22 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
A collaboration by all five Hawke’s Bay councils is bringing the Kids 4 Drama troupe back to schools over the next two weeks with their environmentally focussed production. More >>
Ruataniwha Scheme and Plan Change work hand and hand
Thursday, 5 May 2016, 11:25 am | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Chairman Fenton Wilson says many people have lost sight of the important connection between the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme and the Council’s Tukituki Plan Change. More >>
Improvements to Route 12 bus service effective on Monday
Thursday, 31 March 2016, 1:22 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay bus commuters are being advised of a change to the Napier to Hastings Route 12 to ensure the bus service remains on time in peak hours. More >>
Oil Spill Exercise
Monday, 21 March 2016, 11:41 am | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Oil Spill Exercise Hawke’s Bay Regional Council will be undertaking one of its annual oil spill exercises at Clifton on Wednesday. Under the Maritime Transport Act, HBRC is required to respond to oil spills that occur within the coastal marine ... More >>
Biodiversity Strategy launched soon
Tuesday, 8 March 2016, 11:01 am | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Biodiversity Strategy launched soon Hawke’s Bay businesses, Iwi, community groups and individuals are being urged to get behind a biodiversity strategy aimed at restoring the variety and number of species living in the region. For the first time in Hawke’s ... More >>
Large trees on Karamū make way for natives
Monday, 29 February 2016, 5:19 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
A number of large exotic trees beside Havelock North’s Karamū Stream will shortly be felled to make way for native species. More >>
Successful HBRC Maori Committee meeting in Wairoa
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 12:27 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Successful HBRC Maori Committee meeting in Wairoa Around 30 people attended the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council’s Maori Committee meeting held in the Wairoa Community Centre yesterday. The committee traditionally meets at the council chamber in Napier, but ... More >>
Waihi Dam Update
Tuesday, 16 February 2016, 11:20 am | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has been advised work will get underway tomorrow to resolve the discharge of sediment from the Waihi Dam into the Waiau River. More >>
Ngaruroro Water Conservation Order
Thursday, 11 February 2016, 5:20 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
James Palmer, HBRC’s Group Manager Strategic Development, says it’s premature to consider a Water Conservation Order or WCO application for the Ngaruroro and Clive Rivers while a planning process is already under way in this catchment. More >>
Waihi Dam Update
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 2:06 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Waihi Dam Update Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is hopeful the discharge of sediment from the Waihi Dam into the Waiau River will cease by the end of next week. HBRC staff met with Eastland Group staff and contractors yesterday to discuss a forward ... More >>
Further Heretaunga groundwater science investigated
Thursday, 4 February 2016, 10:28 am | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Hawke’s Bay Regional Planning Committee wants to see further investigations undertaken into the costs and benefits of a deep aquifer drilling programme for the Heretaunga Plains. More >>
Cyanobacteria suspected cause of dog death
Monday, 11 January 2016, 4:54 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
The recent death of a pet dog due to a suspected case of cyanobacterial poisoning at a river, prompts a renewed warning from Hawke’s Bay Regional Council and the Hawke’s Bay District Health Board about the risks of toxic algae in summer. HBRC ... More >>
Cycle safer on Hawke’s Bay Trails
Tuesday, 22 December 2015, 2:42 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Good advice to visiting cyclists has arrived just in time for the summer season with new signs now showing users of our bike trails the safest places to cross one of our busiest roads. More >>
Briefs from Hawke’s Bay Regional Council Meeting
Wednesday, 16 December 2015, 5:18 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Napier-Gisborne Rail Line Update; Independent Peer Review of Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme Business case; New Mountain Bike Park for Central Hawke’s Bay; Section 36 Charges More >>
Building networks an essential tool
Wednesday, 9 December 2015, 4:59 pm | Hawke's Bay Regional Council
Building strong networks is the key to successfully implementing Tukituki Plan Change 6, according to the land management team at Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. More >>
