The Ōpōtiki Harbour Management Committee will include representatives from the district council, Bay of Plenty Regional Council, the Crown, iwi and both commercial and non-commercial harbour users.

The bridge repair option recommended to council would cost $945,000 and would involve the installation of temporary propping ...

West Coast District councils are preparing to join forces to manage water services. Under the Government’s ‘Local Water Done Well’ reforms, councils must either set up their own units to run drinking ...

An old rugby club building in rural Southland could soon be sold for just $1. But Southland District Council is being secretive about the extra information sought before a decision is made.

A state of emergency has been declared in Selwyn as river levels rise and homes have been evacuated. Mayor Sam Broughton declared the state of emergency at 5.39am following 24 hours of heavy rain in ...

The Canterbury town of Culverden was able to take its turn at hosting an Anzac Day service for the first time in four years on Friday. Amuri residents past and present travelled from far and wide to ...

A decision to restore a 100kph speed limit on State Highway 1, south of Woodend, is being labelled ‘‘disappointing’’ by one Waimakariri councillor.

Duncan Rutherford, a local sheep farmer, owned the Hanmer Lodge Hotel, which he offered to the Government in 1915 as a convalescent home for injured soldiers until the Soldiers’ Block at Queen Mary ...

The Government announced in March it will introduce two new pieces of legislation to replace the Resource Management Act (RMA) later this year, promising to grow the economy, raise living standards, ...

The Mana newspaper – launched in 1977 with multilingual stories by Pacific activists, including Tigilau Ness – helped reclaim Pacific voices in a hostile media environment. So did the Panthers’ own ...

ODF is the native file format of LibreOffice, the most widely used and well-known open source office suite, and is supported by a wide range of other applications. Its relevance – twenty years after ...

A Hastings man who has run a makeshift business picking and selling watercress on suburban streets for more than 30 years has ...