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NRC backs proposed single-use plastic bag ban
Friday, 10 August 2018, 12:53 pm | Northland Regional Council
The Northland Regional Council (NRC) is lending its voice to calls to reduce unnecessary use of plastics, including newly-released Government plans for a national ban on single-use plastic bags. More >>
Trial to try to trap tricky turtles
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 12:01 pm | Northland Regional Council
Increased sightings of escaped or dumped turtles in and around Northland waterways have prompted biosecurity experts to trial a new homemade trap made from swimming pool noodles, PVC piping and mesh. More >>
Supreme Court upholds Appeal Court Mangawhai rates ruling
Wednesday, 8 August 2018, 11:06 am | Northland Regional Council
The Supreme Court has upheld a Court of Appeal decision on the way the Northland Regional Council (NRC) set due dates for the payment of rates and its arrangements for rate collection within the Kaipara district. More >>
New insect allies to be conscripted for war on wild ginger
Friday, 27 July 2018, 10:23 am | Northland Regional Council
Thrilled biosecurity experts say an almost $465,000 government grant will allow for a potentially world-first attempt to use insects to tackle wild ginger infestations choking Northland bush and forest. More >>
Refinery operator granted harbour entrance dredging consents
Thursday, 19 July 2018, 9:06 am | Northland Regional Council
Independent commissioners have granted Marsden Pt oil refinery operator Refining NZ (RNZ) a raft of resource consents to deepen and realign Whangarei Harbour’s entrance and its approaches to better accommodate larger, new-generation tankers. More >>
Time running out to have say on representation review
Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 10:18 am | Northland Regional Council
Time is running for the public to have a say on a proposed ‘fine-tuning’ of the Northland Regional Council’s (NRC) representation arrangements. More >>
Honey venture big winner at North Maori business awards
Monday, 16 July 2018, 1:22 pm | Northland Regional Council
The efforts of a 100 percent Maori-owned company specialising in manuka honey production have been recognised with two awards, including the coveted Taitokerau Maori Business of the Year award. More >>
Opua fanworm find sparks experts’ vigilance call
Wednesday, 11 July 2018, 12:57 pm | Northland Regional Council
The discovery of Mediterranean fanworm at Opua has prompted renewed calls from biosecurity experts for boaties to be extra vigilant for unwanted marine pest hitchhikers More >>
Local attempts to tackle kauri dieback get major boost
Thursday, 5 July 2018, 12:31 pm | Northland Regional Council
Attempts to better manage the local fight against kauri dieback in Northland have been given significant practical and financial boosts in two newly-adopted local authority plans. More >>
Trial leaves potential financial, environmental legacy
Thursday, 5 July 2018, 12:00 pm | Northland Regional Council
The regional council’s long-serving Farm Monitoring Manager has hung up his gumboots; but has left behind a dairy effluent reduction model that could prove to be an impressive environmental and economic legacy. More >>
Whangarei’s flood detention dam working well; NRC
Thursday, 28 June 2018, 9:30 am | Northland Regional Council
Recent wet weather has given the multimillion dollar detention dam designed to better protect Whangarei’s central business district from damaging and costly floods one of its biggest tests to date – albeit still well below its massive maximum capacity. More >>
Six-yearly review of NRC representation underway
Monday, 25 June 2018, 9:41 am | Northland Regional Council
An almost 20 percent population growth in popular coastal areas south of Whangarei over the past six years is one of several factors driving a ‘fine-tuning’ of the Northland Regional Council’s representation arrangements. More >>
Seven directors for new, expanded Northland Inc board
Friday, 22 June 2018, 9:23 am | Northland Regional Council
The Northland Regional Council has appointed six new members to the helm of an expanded, seven-strong board for regional economic development agency Northland Inc. More >>
Aupouri Aquifer Avocado Orchard Consents Granted
Thursday, 7 June 2018, 8:58 am | Northland Regional Council
Independent commissioners have granted a group of 17 Far North avocado growers resource consent to collectively take more than two million cubic metres of water a year from the Aupouri aquifer. More >>
Property sold to aid Kawakawa Hundertwasser project
Wednesday, 6 June 2018, 12:14 pm | Northland Regional Council
The Northland Regional Council has sold a Gillies St property it bought two years ago to safeguard it as a future essential link between Kawakawa’s main street and a proposed Hundertwasser Park Centre development there. More >>
$1.5M-plus boost for Northland dune lakes protection
Friday, 1 June 2018, 9:20 am | Northland Regional Council
More than $1.5 million is to be spent restoring and protecting water quality in more than 20 Northland lakes – including some of the region’s most ecologically outstanding dune lakes – over the next five years. More >>
$15 million Awanui flood scheme upgrade a ‘game changer’
Friday, 1 June 2018, 9:15 am | Northland Regional Council
The largest construction project ever undertaken by the Northland Regional Council – a $15 million flood scheme upgrade massively boosting flood protection in and around Kaitaia – should be underway within two years. More >>
DIY kauri dieback cleaning station impresses
Wednesday, 23 May 2018, 12:53 pm | Northland Regional Council
Locals concerned not enough was being done to protect kauri on the southern fringes of the Far North’s 15,000-hectare Puketi Forest from dieback disease have set up their own footwear cleaning station on private farmland there. More >>
New Long Term Plan ‘boldest, most visionary’; NRC chairman
Tuesday, 22 May 2018, 9:21 am | Northland Regional Council
A raft of new initiatives tackling water, pests and flood infrastructure have been agreed to by councillors and will be formally adopted shortly in what will be the Northland Regional Council’s ‘boldest and most visionary’ Long Term Plan, its ... More >>
Free pest plant workshops
Tuesday, 15 May 2018, 10:41 am | Northland Regional Council
Pest plant experts will pass on tips on how to tackle some of Northland’s worst weeds at free workshops in Whangarei, Paparoa, Kerikeri and Coopers Beach. More >>
