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Postal voting packs on the way
Friday, 16 September 2016, 12:31 pm | Northland Regional Council
Date: 16 September, 2016 Postal voting packs on the way Tens of thousands of voting packs for this year’s Northland local body elections will begin turning up in mailboxes around the region from today. (subs: from Friday 16 Sept.) Regional council Electoral ... More >>
Regional council digests interim judgment on rating process
Friday, 16 September 2016, 9:50 am | Northland Regional Council
Northland Regional Council has received an interim judgment today relating to the judicial review in the matter between the Mangawhai Ratepayers and Residents Association, and Mr and Mrs Rogan; against Northland Regional Council (NRC) and Kaipara District ... More >>
Battle against wild ginger heats up
Wednesday, 14 September 2016, 9:46 am | Northland Regional Council
Biological and cyber warfare are two of the latest tools a multi-agency group is keen to employ to tackle a serious weed pest that has invaded thousands of hectares of Northland. More >>
Time running out for early comment on new Regional Plan
Tuesday, 13 September 2016, 3:13 pm | Northland Regional Council
Time is running out for Northlanders to comment on an initial draft of an important new plan that will eventually set out how the region’s water, air, land and the coast are managed. More >>
Kerikeri student’s ‘world-first’ beetle research impresses
Monday, 12 September 2016, 1:38 pm | Northland Regional Council
A Kerikeri teenager’s ‘world-first’ research is shedding new light on a Brazilian leaf beetle specially introduced into Northland several years ago as a biocontrol for tradescantia, one of the region’s most problematic pest plants. More >>
Irrigation study could help make ‘massive difference’
Friday, 2 September 2016, 12:18 pm | Northland Regional Council
Drought has cost Northland dearly in recent years, but a new study shows more than 90,000 hectares of it could potentially be irrigated offering greater protection from dry weather and contributing millions to the local economy. More >>
Discovery of very rare aquatic plant thrills
Friday, 26 August 2016, 3:10 pm | Northland Regional Council
The discovery of a previously unknown site of a critically endangered native aquatic plant in pools at the outlet to a remote Northland dune lake has thrilled biodiversity experts. More >>
Okay to swim at most popular swim spots; NRC
Friday, 26 August 2016, 11:58 am | Northland Regional Council
26 August, 2016 Okay to swim at most popular swim spots; NRC The vast majority of Northland’s most popular coastal swimming spots – and most of their freshwater equivalents –are suitable for swimming all or most of the time, regional council ... More >>
Courtesy call, warning as spring burning season looms
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 10:09 am | Northland Regional Council
Northlanders are being asked to be courteous and follow the rules – or risk fines and other penalties – as they start thinking about burning unwanted vegetation and other waste material over spring. More >>
Fish ladders offer hope to native fish
Thursday, 25 August 2016, 10:08 am | Northland Regional Council
The idea of installing ladders for something without arms or legs may seem a little crazy; but for Whangarei’s threatened native fish it might literally prove a life saver. More >>
Controlled Substance Licence training next month
Monday, 22 August 2016, 12:50 pm | Northland Regional Council
Controlled Substance Licence training next month Several dozen community members and senior secondary students are expected to receive specialist possum poison training next month (subs: September) as part of ‘Project Possum’ . Hundreds of Northlanders ... More >>
Summer survey to help improve future harbour water quality
Tuesday, 16 August 2016, 11:31 am | Northland Regional Council
Stock is currently excluded from about 40 percent of waterways ‘in pasture’ in the Whangarei Harbour catchment, a regional council survey has found. Two tertiary students hired by the council for the summer had walked all the streams ‘in pasture’ ... More >>
Nineteen stand for regional council
Sunday, 14 August 2016, 10:47 pm | Northland Regional Council
Nineteen people have been nominated to contest the nine seats available on the Northland Regional Council at this year’s local body elections in October. More >>
Early chance to comment on new Regional Plan
Friday, 5 August 2016, 12:44 pm | Northland Regional Council
Northlanders are being offered an early chance to comment on an initial draft of an important new plan that will eventually set out how the region’s water, air, land and the coast are managed. More >>
Resident satisfaction survey sets baseline for council
Thursday, 21 July 2016, 6:51 pm | Northland Regional Council
21 July 2016 Resident satisfaction survey sets baseline for regional council A recent residents’ survey has provided a baseline for the Northland Regional Council as it takes a fresh approach to customer satisfaction and engagement with its residents ... More >>
Popular free pest plant workshops back
Tuesday, 12 July 2016, 2:53 pm | Northland Regional Council
Free tips on how to tackle some of Northland’s worst pest plant pests will be on offer later this month at a series of workshops in Kaipara, the Far North and Whangarei. More >>
Northland air quality data now on LAWA website too
Friday, 8 July 2016, 10:54 am | Northland Regional Council
Environmental monitoring website Land, Air, Water Aotearoa (LAWA) has expanded and now shows data on the air that we breathe on top of existing information on New Zealand’s other most valuable natural resource, our water. More >>
Asian paddle crabs already impacting Ngunguru estuary?
Friday, 8 July 2016, 10:52 am | Northland Regional Council
An unwanted and aggressive Asian paddle crab species appears to have made itself at home in the Ngunguru estuary, with preliminary examinations of captured specimens showing it may already be impacting on the local ecology. More >>
Portable hut for Warawara Forest guardians
Friday, 8 July 2016, 10:51 am | Northland Regional Council
A hardy group of possum trappers whose work requires them to camp out in the remote Hokianga forest they are working to protect have been gifted use of a $13,000 portable hut to make their jobs a little easier. More >>
Regional council Dargaville office on the move
Tuesday, 5 July 2016, 10:38 am | Northland Regional Council
The Northland Regional Council’s Dargaville office is on the move from its long-held Victoria St base to shared space in the existing Kaipara District Council (KDC) building. More >>
