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Call for year-end Pride of Place funding applications
Monday, 10 June 2019, 4:20 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Community groups wanting project support from the final round of Pride of Place Funding for this financial year have two weeks to get their applications in which close on Friday 21 June. More >>
Call for Rate Rebate Applications Before 30 June Deadline
Thursday, 6 June 2019, 2:27 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu District Council is urging ratepayers to check their eligibility for receiving a rate rebate before the end of June deadline if they haven’t done so. More >>
A lot of positivity at Visit Ruapehu Forum
Tuesday, 28 May 2019, 10:14 am | Ruapehu District Council
Over 70 tourism operators together with representatives from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), DOC and Taupo’s Regional Tourism Organisation joined Mayor Don Cameron and Council economic and community development staff at ... More >>
Council thrilled with Trades Academy work on playground
Friday, 24 May 2019, 4:56 pm | Ruapehu District Council
The Kakahi community have celebrated the opening of their new playground that was constructed by carpentry and farming Trades Academy pupils from Taumarunui High School (THS). Residents together with Major Don Cameron, Deputy Mayor Karen Ngatai and the ... More >>
Youth Ambassadors help feed Raetihi
Friday, 24 May 2019, 12:03 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Waimarino-Waiouru Youth Ambassadors from Ruapehu’s award winning Youth Council have held a working bee at the Raetihi Community Gardens as part of the NZ Youth Week. Held every May, Youth Week is a nationwide festival of events designed to encourage ... More >>
Museum Building Committee supports housing collections
Tuesday, 21 May 2019, 3:46 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Museum Building Committee supports housing collections together More >>
Eruption training exercise goes well
Monday, 20 May 2019, 2:19 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu Emergency Management Officer Nick Watson said that last week’s multi-agency training exercise based around a major eruption on Mt Ruapehu went well. "In terms of people and organisations taking part it was probably the largest emergency ... More >>
Support for Trades Academy helps build pathways
Friday, 10 May 2019, 4:38 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu’s booming construction sector is providing opportunities for students in the Taumarunui High School (THS) Trades Academy to take on real projects and gain real-life work experience. Council’s Property Team was struggling to find any spare ... More >>
Carrot Park award recognises efforts of Ohakune community
Tuesday, 7 May 2019, 9:54 am | Ruapehu District Council
The Ohakune Carrot Adventure Park has won the Healthy Park Award category at the 2019 Recreation Aotearoa NZ Parks Awards held in Auckland last week. More >>
Excitement at Taumarunui Domain playground upgrade
Monday, 8 April 2019, 9:29 am | Ruapehu District Council
The playground at the Taumarunui Domain is about to get a major upgrade that will see new junior and senior multi-play equipment, swing zone, double flying fox, natural water play area, junior play train and accessible wheel chair carousel installed. More >>
Snow Shuttle pilot helping to manage growth
Friday, 29 March 2019, 10:58 am | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu District Council with partner agencies and stakeholders including DOC, RAL, Horizons, NZTA and transport providers are in the second year of a three year pilot to improve public transport within the Tongariro National Park (TNP). The pilot called ... More >>
2019 Youth Ambassadors Sworn-in
Tuesday, 26 March 2019, 10:09 am | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu’s 2019 Youth Council Ambassadors were sworn-in in front of whanau and friends by Mayor Don Cameron at a special ceremony held in Taumarunui Council Chamber last night. Mayor Cameron said that he was really impressed with the caliber of young ... More >>
Nighttime water outage planned for Ohakune over 26-28 March
Friday, 15 March 2019, 10:55 am | Ruapehu District Council
Council is undertaking a programme aimed at identifying and locating the source of leaks from its reticulated (pipe) drinking water networks starting with Ohakune and then followed by Raetihi. More >>
New community housing for Taumarunui celebrated
Friday, 15 March 2019, 10:40 am | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu District Council, Te Puni Kokiri / Ministry of Maori Development and the Taumarunui Community Kokiri Trust are celebrating the Trust’s purchase of the derelict Heritage Court apartments on Huia St in Taumarunui that will see them demolished ... More >>
New Ruapehu Youth Ambassadors
Wednesday, 13 March 2019, 11:39 am | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu’s 2019 Youth Council Ambassadors for Taumarunui-Ohura and Waimarino-Waiouru will have their first joint hui this coming Monday (18 March) in Ohakune. More >>
Designer off-cuts help premature babies
Thursday, 7 March 2019, 4:11 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Anyone one interested in sustainability, ethical fashion and babies should attend Council’s next waste minimisation workshop in the Textile Room at Ruapehu College on Monday 25 March starting at 5.30pm. Waste Minimisation Educator Emily Jasmine ... More >>
Ruapehu EMO lends experience to Nelson fire response
Thursday, 28 February 2019, 11:41 am | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu Emergency Management Officer Nick Watson has returned from two weeks helping out with the Nelson rural fire response. More >>
Park and Ride construction underway
Thursday, 21 February 2019, 12:27 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Construction work on the Park and Ride facility in National Park Village is getting underway with completion targeted for mid-June in time for the 2019 snow season and the new Whakapapa ski area gondola. More >>
High participation wanted in Oct elections
Tuesday, 19 February 2019, 12:44 pm | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu Mayor Don Cameron is encouraging people to start thinking about the elections for Council which is on Saturday 12 October this year and ensure that they are enrolled to vote or if they may want to stand for election. More >>
Council targeting avg. 3.52% rate rise
Friday, 15 February 2019, 9:27 am | Ruapehu District Council
Ruapehu ratepayers can expect an average 3.52% rate increase for the coming 2019/20 financial year which is below the 3.86% forecast in the Long Term Plan (LTP) but in line with the yearly ten year projection of 3.5%. Mayor Don Cameron said that ... More >>
