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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 >>
Super City Boundary Change ‘Workable’ For NRC
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 11:28 am | Northland Regional Council
Initial investigations show a Government proposal that would expand the Northland region’s boundary as far south as Waiwera is workable from the Northland Regional Council’s perspective, its Chairman says. More >>
Investigation Into Mystery Whangarei Plant
Monday, 7 September 2009, 10:26 am | Northland Regional Council
Local authority biosecurity staff are hoping an overseas expert will be able to shed some light on the identity of a mysterious plant discovered growing wild in publically-owned forest in Whangarei. More >>
Stage One Of Northland Events Centre Complete
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 9:57 am | Northland Regional Council
The first stage of the $16 million Northland Events Centre project is now effectively complete with the second, final stage of the ratepayer-funded development expected to be finished - on time and budget – by May next year. (subs: May 2010) The centre, ... More >>
Regional Flood Meetings ‘A Success’
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 2:47 pm | Northland Regional Council
Development on floodplains – particularly housing – has emerged as one of several key public concerns expressed during a recent round of meetings in flood-prone Northland communities. More >>
NRC Chair Appointed To Aquaculture Advisory Group
Wednesday, 29 July 2009, 2:35 pm | Northland Regional Council
Northland Regional Council Chairman Mark Farnsworth has been appointed to a new seven-member Government Aquaculture Technical Advisory Group (TAG). More >>
