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Hawkes Bay Regional Council - Latest News [Page 30]

Schools Planting for Conservation

Friday, 31 July 2015, 12:03 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay’s annual ‘Conservation Week’ schools planting programme begins at Tūtira this Monday (3 August). More >>

HBRC Adopts Hawke’s Bay Biodiversity Strategy

Wednesday, 29 July 2015, 2:47 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council today unanimously endorsed the Hawke’s Bay Biodiversity Strategy, which has been under development by major groups, agencies, tāngata whenua and key individuals since 2012. More >>

Hawke’s Bay Urban Possum Control A Winner

Tuesday, 21 July 2015, 10:10 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

21 July 2015 Hawke’s Bay Urban Possum Control A Winner The Hawke’s Bay Urban Biodiversity (HuB) possum control programme was a winner at the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) Awards last night. More >>

Water Scheme consent confirmation great news for the region

Friday, 17 July 2015, 3:32 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

The Chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council says confirmation of Tukituki Plan Change 6 and consents for the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme is good news for the region. The appeal period for the Board of Inquiry’s final decision on the ... More >>

State of Our Environment Hawkes Bay

Thursday, 9 July 2015, 2:16 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

El Niño is now the name of the game and westerlies, westerlies, westerlies tend to be the result! More >>

Environment website wades deeper into water data

Monday, 29 June 2015, 12:53 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Environmental monitoring website Land Air Water Aotearoa (LAWA) is expanding its repertoire, offering more data about New Zealand’s most valuable natural resource, water. More >>

Valuable Hawke’s Bay Archives Centralised and Online

Thursday, 25 June 2015, 10:56 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council archives are now searchable online, and include such treasures as a 1931 minute book recording that a board meeting was disbanded due to a severe earthquake. HBRC has used Archives Central in Fielding, a unit of Manawatu ... More >>

Tourism wins with HBRC Long Term Plan

Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 3:30 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

24 June 2015 Tourism wins with HBRC Long Term Plan Hawke’s Bay Regional Council today adopted its Long Term Plan for 2015-25, confirming a total average rate increase of 5.87% for the 2015-16 year. The key programmes and activities named in April’s ... More >>

Garden Bird Survey On Again

Wednesday, 24 June 2015, 10:08 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay people are encouraged to take part again in the annual garden bird survey which starts on Saturday 27 June. More >>

HBRC prosecutes Te Mata Mushrooms for offensive odour

Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 9:46 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is prosecuting Te Mata Mushroom Company of Havelock North with discharging offensive and objectionable odour from its property in Brookvale Road, Havelock North on six different dates in March and April of this year. More >>

First Air Quality Exceedance in Hastings

Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 12:25 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

9 June 2015 First Air Quality Exceedance in Hastings Hastings has had its first air quality exceedance for winter. Yesterday (8 June) the average level of PM10 over 24 hours was 54 micrograms per cubic metre as measured at the St John’s monitoring ... More >>

Enviroschools Speech Competition

Thursday, 4 June 2015, 9:53 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Students from six Hawke’s Bay Enviroschools will be taking part in a speech competition on Tuesday 9 June at Napier Intermediate. More >>

Water take renewals

Tuesday, 2 June 2015, 4:20 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council is notifying 52 applications to replace existing resource consents to take water from the Ngaruroro River and its tributaries and from adjacent groundwater. The applications are for the renewal of existing takes, and some applicants ... More >>

Kids 4 Drama Returns to Bay Schools

Monday, 18 May 2015, 10:16 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

The Kids 4 Drama group will be returning to Hawke’s Bay primary schools for two weeks from Monday 18 May. More >>

Manuka Seminar in Napier A Success

Wednesday, 13 May 2015, 6:12 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

An enthusiastic crowd of 280 people filled Napier’s War Memorial Centre last week on 6 May for the seminar about mānuka on marginal land. More >>

Farmers back a pioneering environmental restoration project

Friday, 1 May 2015, 9:46 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay farmers are getting in behind a New Zealand first environmental restoration project, which has just been launched in Napier. The Cape to City project is a world-leading programme, which will aim to achieve a predator free Hawke’s Bay. It will focus ... More >>

Pekapeka Regional Park Weekend Closure

Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 2:44 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council notifies that Pekapeka Regional Park will be closed to the public this weekend, for the opening weekend of the game bird season. The gate to the wetland car park, interpretation area and walkways will be closed and ... More >>

Hawke’s Bay – a bike friendly region

Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 8:59 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Whether you love BMX and pump tracks, mountain bike parks, country roads, the iWay or our trails, Hawke’s Bay is set to become the most bike-friendly region in the country. More >>

Dry weather still impacting areas of Hawke’s Bay

Thursday, 2 April 2015, 11:03 am | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

Hawke’s Bay Regional Council warns farmers that weather forecasts are not predicting any significant rain for the region during the first half of April. More >>

Hawke’s Bay schools getting closer to nature

Wednesday, 25 March 2015, 4:08 pm | Hawkes Bay Regional Council

More than 120 school children from throughout Hawke’s Bay will be getting a little closer to nature this Friday with a special Enviroschools event in Havelock North. Enviroschools is a school-based programme, administered by Hawke’s Bay Regional ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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