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Waikato Regional Council - Latest News [Page 14]
Significant Increase To Go Bus Driver Wages In Waikato Region
Monday, 19 December 2022, 4:15 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Go Bus driver wages in Hamilton are set to jump to $28 an hour – an increase of almost 20 per cent – with a funding injection from Waikato Regional Council and support from Go Bus. Earlier in December, councillors met in a public excluded session ... More >>
Swimmers: Check Before You Dive In
Monday, 12 December 2022, 1:49 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Swimmers are being urged to check for potentially toxic algal blooms before they dive into lakes, rivers and streams this summer. Water users should also be aware of the potential for higher levels of bacteria in waterways following periods of ... More >>
New Committee Structure Ensures Strong Governance Oversight
Friday, 25 November 2022, 4:30 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Nine discretionary committees confirmed by Waikato regional councillors will ensure strong governance oversight of the council’s work for the next three years. Committee structure and membership was the main business of the day when councillors met in ... More >>
Wētā Workshop Kauri Model Spreads Protection Message
Thursday, 24 November 2022, 3:45 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Award-winning special effects and prop company Wētā Workshop Ltd has created a scale model of a mature kauri tree for Waikato Regional Council to help spread the message about protecting kauri. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2211/1118983f2db6597ba0f2.jpeg" ... More >>
Dogs Cover 453km In 4000ha Search Around Mōkau But No Wallabies Found
Monday, 14 November 2022, 9:02 am | Waikato Regional Council
Surveillance by Waikato Regional Council shows there is unlikely to be an established population of wallabies in the Mōkau area. In July this year, a landowner’s find of a female wallaby with a broken hind leg and a joey in her pouch sparked a two-month ... More >>
Council Secures WRA Funding For Projects To Benefit Rivers
Monday, 31 October 2022, 6:04 pm | Waikato Regional Council
The Waikato River Authority has awarded $2.17 million to three Waikato Regional Council catchment-scale projects and its new Māori medium environmental educational programme to benefit the health and wellbeing of the Waikato and Waipā rivers. The ... More >>
Waikato Regional Council Chair And Deputy Selected
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 4:36 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Pamela Storey has been selected chair of Waikato Regional Council during the triennial meeting held in Hamilton today. The second term councillor was nominated for the role of chair alongside Stu Kneebone, now starting his fifth regional council term. ... More >>
Coastal Monitoring Of Waikato Region Beaches To Get Underway
Friday, 21 October 2022, 9:46 am | Waikato Regional Council
The summer monitoring programme of Waikato region beaches and estuaries is due to get underway at the end of the month with help from two environmental science university students. Every year, Waikato Regional Council staff monitor coastal water quality, ... More >>
Plea To Boaties – If In Doubt, Don’t Go Out
Thursday, 20 October 2022, 10:53 am | Waikato Regional Council
Boaties are being reminded to prep their boat, check their gear and know the rules ahead of the traditionally busy Labour Day weekend on the Waikato region’s waterways and off the coast. “We want boaties to have fun if heading out on the water over ... More >>
Final Election Results Announced For Waikato Regional Council
Saturday, 15 October 2022, 1:02 pm | Waikato Regional Council
All votes have now been counted, with no changes to the make-up of the 14-member Waikato Regional Council announced on Election Day. Elected members will take office tomorrow (Sunday, 16 October). However, an elected member cannot act until after ... More >>
Landowners Retire Nearly 6000ha Of Unproductive Land In Five Years
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 2:20 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Landowners in the Waikato, with support by Waikato Regional Council, have in total retired the equivalent of 21 average-sized farms of unproductive land and planted over 3 million trees in the past five years. The council’s Integrated Catchment ... More >>
Companies Fined For Damaging Stream
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 10:24 am | Waikato Regional Council
A farming company and an earthworks contractor have been convicted and fined a total of $76,500 for unlawfully excavating a north Waikato stream. Gregan Farms Limited and Steve Barker Limited were fined $31,500 and $45,000 respectively by District ... More >>
“Highly Careless” Forestry Harvest Results In Convictions And Fines
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 9:21 am | Waikato Regional Council
Convictions and fines totalling more than $100,000 have been imposed for environmental damage caused by a “highly careless” pine woodlot harvest and associated earthworks on a farm in northern Waikato. Forestry company, Glenn Martin Ltd, and forestry harvest ... More >>
Eight New Waikato Regional Councillors
Saturday, 8 October 2022, 7:13 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Provisional votes are in for the 2022 local government elections, with eight new members elected to Waikato Regional Council. Two councillors had been re-elected unopposed, both in the Māori constituencies established nine years ago: Kataraina ... More >>
City Council Convicted For Wastewater Discharge
Tuesday, 4 October 2022, 3:23 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Hamilton City Council has been convicted and fined $76,500 in respect of a discharge of wastewater into the environment over a period of nine days in October 2020. The sentence released yesterday (Monday, 3 October) was imposed by District Court Judge ... More >>
Council Gives 44 Small Scale Community Pest Control Projects A Funding Boost
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 11:00 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has given 44 pest animal and plant control projects $150,000 in funding in the latest round of its Small Scale Community Initiatives Fund (SSCIF). The fund was set up to help local communities and individual landowners undertake ... More >>
New Kit Tested During Raglan Marine Oil Spill Exercise
Friday, 23 September 2022, 3:47 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Emergency responders from Waikato Regional Council tested out some new equipment during a marine oil spill exercise in Raglan yesterday. The new equipment, which is paid for by an oil pollution levy collected from industry to run Maritime New ... More >>
Bold Plan For Public Transport In The Waikato Rohe Confirmed
Friday, 23 September 2022, 3:02 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato regional councillors have unanimously signed off on a bold 10-year plan for public transport in the rohe (region) at their last meeting for the triennium. The aspirational draft regional public transport plan was released for feedback in ... More >>
Environmental Initiatives Awarded Funding
Tuesday, 20 September 2022, 1:37 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Six community environmental groups benefit from this year’s round of Waikato Regional Council’s Environmental Intiatives Fund. The council approved $54,298.97 to: Habitat Tuateawa for maintaining and coordinating Habitat Tuateawa’s pest control and monitoring ... More >>
Bridge To Bridge Project Ends With Staff Planting Day
Monday, 12 September 2022, 11:18 am | Waikato Regional Council
A three-year community-led project to replant the riparian margins of the Waitoa River between the Puketutu and Station Road bridges near Matamata has been completed. Landowners on either side of the river between the two bridges have upgraded 8 kilometres ... More >>
