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‘Umbrella’ plan for North resources to become operative
Wednesday, 20 April 2016, 9:26 am | Northland Regional Council
A local authority document that provides a broad direction and framework for managing the region’s natural and physical resources has reached a significant milestone several years in the making. The Northland Regional Council’s Regional Policy Statement ... More >>
Free pest plant workshops for 2016
Friday, 15 April 2016, 12:04 pm | Northland Regional Council
Pest plant experts will be passing on tips on how to tackle some of the Northland’s worst weeds at a series of free winter workshops in Kaipara, the Far North and Whangarei. Northland Regional Council Chairman Bill Shepherd says it will be the sixth year ... More >>
Tech time savers allow tripling of summer hull inspections
Thursday, 14 April 2016, 10:53 am | Northland Regional Council
A clever IT initiative to help battle a marine pest has saved Northland Regional Council staff and contractors hours of work a day – trebling the number of boat hulls able to be inspected over summer – and has now been recognised nationally. ... More >>
$11M detention dam officially named, opened
Monday, 11 April 2016, 11:15 am | Northland Regional Council
A multimillion dollar detention dam designed to better protect Whangarei’s Central Business District from damaging and costly floods has been officially named and opened. More >>
Feedback sought on Annual Plan 2016/17
Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 9:26 am | Northland Regional Council
The public will have until early May to provide feedback on what the Northland Regional Council is describing as a very much ‘business as usual’ Annual Plan for 2016/17. Council chairman Bill Shepherd says the plan keeps an overall rates increase to the ... More >>
‘Project Mustelid’ training launched
Wednesday, 16 March 2016, 1:01 pm | Northland Regional Council
More than 40 students from five Northland schools have gathered near Kaikohe to gain hands-on knowledge of controlling stoats, ferrets and weasels as the Enviroschools programme offers its first ‘Project Mustelid’. The chair of the Northland Regional ... More >>
Public meeting on Whangarei Harbour marine pest spread
Wednesday, 9 March 2016, 10:31 am | Northland Regional Council
Public meeting on Whangarei Harbour marine pest spread A public meeting on marine pests and how we can all help prevent their spread in Whangarei Harbour is planned for early next month. (subs: April) The 7-9pm Thursday April 07 meeting at the McLeod ... More >>
Report tiny bug targeting tobacco weed, Northlanders urged
Friday, 26 February 2016, 9:29 am | Northland Regional Council
A tiny South American bug released in Northland five years ago as a biocontrol for tobacco weed is spreading well, prompting a call for new sightings by an insect expert tracking its movements. More >>
North dairy farms lift collective environmental record
Thursday, 18 February 2016, 9:34 am | Northland Regional Council
Northland’s dairy farms are collectively lifting their environmental compliance performance with record numbers achieving full compliance last season. More >>
‘Prudenty’ decision to re-set special pest rate
Wednesday, 17 February 2016, 9:34 am | Northland Regional Council
A targeted rate designed to target pests which threaten kiwi and help eradicate selected weeds on private land at Whangarei Heads is to be officially re-set in a ‘prudent, precautionary’ step to remove any future doubt as to its validity. Believed to ... More >>
Effluent reduction model could be dairying ‘game changer’
Thursday, 11 February 2016, 11:57 am | Northland Regional Council
A Northland farmer’s unwavering determination to secure the resource consent compliance that had been eluding him has seen him play a key role in a potentially ‘game-changing’ effluent reduction model for the dairy industry. Maungaturoto’s ‘Mayflower Farms ... More >>
Economic action plan welcomed by regional council
Friday, 5 February 2016, 4:59 pm | Northland Regional Council
The Northland Regional Council has added its voice to those welcoming the newly-released Tai Tokerau Northland Economic Action Plan. The Action Plan was jointly launched yesterday in Kerikeri by Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce, Primary Industries ... More >>
$17,000 of upgrades for Whangaroa, Kaipara sector lights
Wednesday, 3 February 2016, 11:35 am | Northland Regional Council
Special aids to navigation light beacons designed to help keep boaties safe in Whangaroa and Kaipara Harbours are to be upgraded and modernised at a cost of about $17,000. Jim Lyle, the council’s Opua-based Regional Harbourmaster, says the council takes ... More >>
Clarity Needed on Freshwater Responsibilities; NRC
Friday, 22 January 2016, 3:05 pm | Northland Regional Council
Clarity Needed on Freshwater Responsibilities; NRC The Northland Regional Council is calling on central government to reveal more about its plans for any future freshwater reform, including how it proposes to tackle Maori rights and interests. Chairman ... More >>
Rabbit rissoles latest tasty food treat
Wednesday, 20 January 2016, 9:03 am | Northland Regional Council
Rabbit rissoles with garlic and fennel will be the wild food treat used to lure visitors to the Northland Regional Council’s marquee at Kaipara’s upcoming Northland Field Days. In recent years the regional council has successfully used a variety ... More >>
$400,000-plus Awanui flood protection work looms
Monday, 11 January 2016, 9:41 am | Northland Regional Council
More than $400,000 worth of protection work designed to better protect Kaitaia and the wider Awanui catchment from the effects of flooding is due to get under way next month. The Northland Regional Council recently let two contracts; the first for roughly ... More >>
Seven reach Enviroschools milestones
Wednesday, 6 January 2016, 12:16 pm | Northland Regional Council
Seven reach Enviroschools milestones Five Northland schools and two kindergartens have reached important milestones through the national Enviroschools programme. Northland Regional Council chairman Bill Shepherd says 71 Northland schools and five kindergartens ... More >>
Extra drains to protect Bell’s Hill slip
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 12:29 pm | Northland Regional Council
Extra drains to protect Bell’s Hill slip Tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of extra horizontal drainage has been installed to help better protect the Bell’s Hill slip site in Kaitaia. The Northland Regional Council has been monitoring and ... More >>
Divers to inspect boat hulls for pests at holiday spots
Tuesday, 22 December 2015, 12:50 pm | Northland Regional Council
The number of boat hulls checked for marine pests will almost quadruple in Northland this summer with local authority divers poised to inspect about 1500 vessels at popular holiday spots. More >>
Awanui flood maps to be released
Wednesday, 16 December 2015, 9:53 am | Northland Regional Council
The Awanui-Kaitaia area is poised to become the latest part of Northland to be issued with new maps showing the impacts of a ‘one in a 100 year’ flood. The new maps – developed over the past several years – form part of the Northland Regional ... More >>
