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Hatea River Bridge Consents Sought
Wednesday, 24 February 2010, 5:00 pm | Northland Regional Council
Applications for the raft of consents needed to build the Whangarei District Council’s proposed multimillion dollar new bridge across the Hatea River have been lodged with the Northland Regional Council. More >>
Good Progress in Manchurian Wild Rice Programme
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 1:48 pm | Northland Regional Council
A major $1 million-plus campaign designed to halt the spread of the invasive Manchurian wild rice plant - and then steadily reduce its impact on Northland - is progressing well. More >>
Cash Available For Tree Planting
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 10:23 am | Northland Regional Council
Northlanders are being urged to apply for a share of a multimillion dollar Government fund that will pay them to plant forests to help meet New Zealand’s obligations to reduce greenhouse gases. More >>
February Hearing For Three Pest Strategies
Friday, 29 January 2010, 2:50 pm | Northland Regional Council
Public submissions on three strategies designed to provide a more streamlined, flexible regime for managing Northland’s plant and animal pests will be considered in Whangarei shortly. (subs: February 18) More >>
Major Progress But Floods Still Risk To Kaitaia
Friday, 22 January 2010, 10:36 am | Northland Regional Council
More than $2 million of work including more than 200,000 cubic metres of earthworks and the removal of 2000-plus trees has resulted in marked improvements to the Awanui Flood Management Scheme, local authority experts say. However, the Northland Regional ... More >>
Draft 30-Year Transport Strategy Released
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 2:08 pm | Northland Regional Council
Northlanders are being asked for their views on a long-term vision outlining the way the region’s transport infrastructure should be developed over the next 30 years. More >>
Water Restrictions Loom If Drought Continues
Thursday, 14 January 2010, 12:14 pm | Northland Regional Council
The drought rapidly tightening its grip on an increasingly parched Northland may soon force the Northland Regional Council to limit the water taken from the region’s rivers and streams, its hydrologists warn. More >>
Regional Council Wades into River Survey
Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 12:34 pm | Northland Regional Council
Northland Regional Council contractors have caused some curious onlookers to wonder what is happening in the region’s most flood-prone rivers and streams. More >>
NRC Posts Surplus, Signs Off Annual Report
Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 4:36 pm | Northland Regional Council
The Northland Regional Council has posted an $182,000 net surplus for the 2008/09 financial year. The surplus is detailed in the Council’s newly-finalised 2008/09 Annual Report, which was officially signed off by Regional Councillors at their monthly ... More >>
More Time To Have Say On Mangawhai Mooring Plan
Tuesday, 13 October 2009, 12:31 pm | Northland Regional Council
Calls by locals for more time to have a say on a draft local authority mooring management plan for Mangawhai Harbour has seen a deadline for public comment extended by more than a month to December. More >>
NRC Chair Welcomes Marsden Pt Rail Designation
Friday, 9 October 2009, 1:52 pm | Northland Regional Council
The Northland Regional Council says today’s recommendation KiwiRail be allowed to formally designate the Marsden Pt rail link route is a significant milestone in a project poised to deliver significant, long-lasting economic benefits to the entire ... More >>
Panel: Marsden Pt. Rail Designation Should Be Ok'd
Friday, 9 October 2009, 1:49 pm | Northland Regional Council
A panel of Independent Commissioners is recommending national rail operator KiwiRail be allowed to formally designate the corridor of land it would use for a proposed multimillion dollar rail link from Oakleigh to Marsden Pt. Although KiwiRail has ... More >>
Far North Ski Lane Changes Approved
Friday, 9 October 2009, 11:21 am | Northland Regional Council
Local authority proposals to change ski lane and swimming areas at two popular beaches in the Far North’s Doubtless Bay have been modified after public consultation. Jim Lyle, the Northland Regional Council’s Opua-based Deputy Harbourmaster, says ... More >>
Strategy To Address North’s Marine Pests
Thursday, 8 October 2009, 4:43 pm | Northland Regional Council
Northlanders are being asked for their views on a new Proposed Marine Pest Management Strategy designed to address the impacts of established nasties like sea squirt and potential threats from species like the Pacific sea star starfish. Northland is particularly ... More >>
Tsunami Warning Cancelled, Caution Still Advised
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 5:09 pm | Northland Regional Council
The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency late this afternoon officially cancelled a national tsunami warning for New Zealand issued in the wake of this morning’s 8.3 magnitude earthquake off Samoa. More >>
Tsunami Passes, Warning Downgraded (12.15)
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 12:46 pm | Northland Regional Council
A barely detectable tsunami wave has been recorded in Northland after today’s large earthquake off Samoa but appears to have had little or no local impact. Civil Defence officials have now downgraded a national tsunami warning for New Zealand issued in ... More >>
Tsunami Warning For Northland
Wednesday, 30 September 2009, 11:02 am | Northland Regional Council
Northlanders in low-lying east coast areas are being warned to adopt a precautionary approach and stay off beaches as a tsunami of as-yet unknown height reportedly heads towards New Zealand. The Northland Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Group ... More >>
Biological Gorse Control Research Wins NRC Award
Monday, 14 September 2009, 12:30 pm | Northland Regional Council
A 17-year-old Kerikeri High School student’s study on the biological control of gorse has earned him this year’s Northland Regional Council ‘Excellence Award’ at the Top Energy Far North Science and Technology Fair. Student David Blucher’s ... More >>
NRC Nominates Three New Port Corp Directors
Friday, 11 September 2009, 3:15 pm | Northland Regional Council
Majority shareholder the Northland Regional Council wants to see a more professionally focussed Northland Port Corporation board – and fewer local government faces at the board table. At an extraordinary Council meeting held in Whangarei today, (subs: ... More >>
NRC To Give Away Aerial, Geographic Data
Friday, 11 September 2009, 9:41 am | Northland Regional Council
Northlanders are to be granted access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of aerial photography and other local authority geographic information system (GIS) data. In what is believed to be a first for a Regional Council in New Zealand, the ... More >>
