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Waikato Regional Council is backing a new Upper North Island Strategic Alliance which will see seven councils working together to make the most of sustainable development and economic growth opportunities.
Waikato Regional Council is backing a new Upper North Island Strategic Alliance which will see seven councils working together to make the most of sustainable development and economic growth opportunities.
The Whitianga community is being invited along to two Queen’s Birthday weekend open days to discuss the town’s preparedness for and response to tsunamis.
Waikato Regional Council has welcomed a Government announcement that it will contribute $15.2 million towards phase two of the Tui Mine remediation project at Te Aroha.
A nine year project to provide 100 year flood protection to people and property in a Coromandel Peninsula town has entered its final stage.
People are being urged to exercise extreme caution on the west coast of the Waikato region due to a heavy swells warning.
Four Waikato teenagers passionate about the environment have returned from a national forum eager to use the knowledge gained during the event to improve their communities.
An all day oil spill exercise is due to be carried out at Whangamata Harbour on Tuesday 24 May by Waikato Regional Council, Whangamata Marina staff and other associated agencies.
Motorists are being urged to drive with their headlights on at all times over winter to help reduce the risk of crashes. The “headlights on” winter safety message will be seen on highway billboards, heard on radios and read in newspapers across the Waikato region as the regional road safety campaign “Reduce the Risk” enters its winter phase in May.
The Government’s new national water policy statement reinforces work already underway in the Waikato to improve water quality in the region’s rivers, lakes and streams, says Waikato Regional Council chairman Peter Buckley.
A court ruling has confirmed the powers and actions of Waikato Regional Council to undertake pest plant control and bill property owners if they fail to carry out such work to the required standard of the regional pest management strategy.
An independent hearings committee has granted Waikato Regional Council’s river and catchment services group permission to extract up to 150,000 cubic metres per year of river bed material, including debris, from the Tongariro River for flood management and erosion control purposes.
A Silver Fern railcar service from Hamilton to Auckland’s inner city Strand station (the old main station) is now the preferred option for getting Hamilton-Auckland commuter rail up and running.
Waikato Regional Council has announced the names of the successful appointees to be the 2011-14 landowner and community representatives on catchment liaison sub-committees.
A joint Waikato mayoral appeal has collected more than $70,000 for quake-hit Christchurch.
Waikato Regional Council has voted for salary cuts to better compensate councillors involved in resource management planning hearings.
A joint Waikato mayoral appeal has collected more than $60,000 for quake-hit Christchurch.
Duck shooters preparing for the start of the hunting season are being reminded by Waikato Regional Council to pack lifejackets for each person on board their boat.
A South American beetle with exclusive tastes has been released for the first time in the Waikato region as a biological control agent for the pest plant Tradescantia fluminensis (commonly known as wandering jew or wandering willy).
A Waikato Regional Council scheme is making more than 18,000 native shrubs and trees available for planting on the Coromandel Peninsula this year.
