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Coal And Agriculture Put Waikato Ahead In Emission Statistics
Wednesday, 29 September 2021, 3:51 pm | Waikato Regional Council
The Waikato region’s contribution to the 2.1 per cent national increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the 2019 year reflects the region’s vital role in New Zealand’s electricity generation, primary sector and goods producing industries. Waikato Regional ... More >>
BUSIT To Your Vaccination For Free
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 5:14 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council’s Comet bus stopped outside Waikato Hospital. Waikato residents can get a free bus ride to and from their COVID-19 vaccination appointments from tomorrow (Wednesday, 29 September). With the support of the Waikato District ... More >>
Warning To Downstream Water Users Following Truck Rollover – Kaimai Ranges
Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 10:13 am | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is warning that chemical on board a truck that crashed on the Kaimai Ranges this morning might have entered a nearby stream. It’s understood the truck rolled on SH29, between Rapurapu Kauri Track and Kaimai Mamaku Lookout, ... More >>
Planting Begins On Ecological Corridor Connecting Kopuatai And Firth Of Thames
Wednesday, 22 September 2021, 9:14 am | Waikato Regional Council
The first kilometre of a 17km-long ecological corridor connecting Kopuatai Wetland with the Firth of Thames has been planted out with 18,000 plants along the Piako River. The five-year Piako River Green Corridor project, led by Waikato Regional ... More >>
Involve local government in national planning framework
Friday, 3 September 2021, 3:52 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has this afternoon urged the Environment Select Committee to involve local government in development of a national planning framework. More >>
Waikato Regional Council restarts some field work
Thursday, 2 September 2021, 3:46 pm | Waikato Regional Council
The move down an alert level for the majority of the rohe means Waikato Regional Council is restarting some of its field work, where it’s safe to do so. A small area of the northern Waikato remains under Alert Level 4, where only essential public ... More >>
Report card shows how the region is tracking
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 10:13 am | Waikato Regional Council
A Waikato Regional Council report on the economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the region shows its residents feel better connected and healthier than average for New Zealand. The Waikato Progress Indicators – Tupuranga Waikato (WPI) report ... More >>
Council commences prosecution linked to landfill fire
Monday, 16 August 2021, 1:43 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has commenced a prosecution under the Resource Management Act against one company and one individual relating to activities at the Puke Coal landfill site at Pukemiro, west of Huntly. More >>
Innovative Corporate Software System Considered By Other Councils
Thursday, 5 August 2021, 1:00 pm | Waikato Regional Council
A Waikato Regional Council project to integrate its outdated corporate software systems is being considered by other Aotearoa New Zealand councils. Project Reboot aims to replace a tangled web of 28 different software systems that don’t speak ... More >>
Council Says ‘good Job Farmers’
Tuesday, 3 August 2021, 1:50 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Monitoring by Waikato Regional Council has found the number of significantly non-compliant dairy farms in the region has halved on the previous year. It’s a result that has been applauded by the council who says it reflects the industry’s commitment to ... More >>
Scholarship To Aid Student’s Urban Forests Research
Friday, 30 July 2021, 11:05 am | Waikato Regional Council
The latest recipient of the $6000 Dr Stella Frances Scholarship says her thesis is a particularly challenging, exciting and novel project that will add to the story of underground life within the human ecosystem, namely urban cities. Grace Mitchell, ... More >>
Te Huia Exceeds 11,000 Passengers In Just Over Three Months
Friday, 16 July 2021, 2:15 pm | Waikato Regional Council
The Waikato to Auckland Te Huia train service has transported more than 11,000 passengers in its first three months of operation. It’s also proving extremely popular with families in the first week of the school holidays, with a 31 per cent increase in ... More >>
Innovators, Design Thinkers Wanted For Youth Initiative
Wednesday, 14 July 2021, 9:53 am | Waikato Regional Council
The Waikato Wellbeing Project (WWP) is calling for innovators, data scientists and creative design thinkers to help it in its mission to enable equitable outcomes for rangatahi/youth. Expressions of interest are being sought from rangatahi or anyone ... More >>
Saturday Te Huia Services To Start Running To The Strand
Friday, 9 July 2021, 11:38 am | Waikato Regional Council
The first improvement to the Waikato to Auckland Te Huia rail service will rollout later this month, with Saturday trains arriving at The Strand station in central Auckland from 24 July. The announcement has been made by the multi-agency Te Huia ... More >>
Aka Aka Gets ‘100 Per Cent’ Fish-friendly Pump, First Of Its Kind In NZ
Thursday, 8 July 2021, 9:10 am | Waikato Regional Council
A new fish-friendly screw pump to be installed in Aka Aka, near Rangiriri, is big enough to pass a small shark, laughs Waikato Regional Council project manager Richard Dodera. The Archimedes screw pump, which is 10 metres in length and 1.6 metres in ... More >>
Te Poi School Digs In With Shovel Ready Restoration Project
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:26 pm | Waikato Regional Council
It takes a community to improve a catchment, as evidenced at a planting day for a Waikato Regional Council shovel ready project. Te Poi School students, teachers and families planted 500 plants in a wetland on a neighbouring farm as part of the ... More >>
Waikato To Introduce Weekly Fare Capping On Public Transport
Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 10:14 am | Waikato Regional Council
The most significant improvements to bus fares in more than five years will be introduced this month. Waikato Regional Council launched the new Bee Card ticketing system a year ago with temporary fare levels to help simplify the changes for passengers and ... More >>
Grants Help Boost Economy, Create Jobs
Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 1:51 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has approved its first grants from the regional development fund, with a combined total of $2.575 million going to two different projects. Ariki Tahi/Sugarloaf Wharf Ltd (ATSWL) will receive $2 million, and Hamilton-Waikato Tourism ... More >>
Regional Council Set To Move Into New Headquarters
Friday, 28 May 2021, 4:36 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council is due to start moving into its new Hamilton CBD headquarters this weekend, with the doors opening to the public on Monday. The move as a tenant into the Tristram Precinct at 160 Ward Street will be staggered over three weeks ... More >>
Water Sciences Prize A “Special Honour”
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 5:15 pm | Waikato Regional Council
Waikato Regional Council has recognised the University of Waikato’s top water sciences student. The water sciences prize, established in 1990 by Sir Ross Jansen with the University of Waikato Earth Sciences Department, was presented to Bachelor ... More >>
