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WELLINGTON — A draft plan to improve the movement of freight to, from and through the Wellington region is now out for public consultation.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council and KiwiRail have announced temporary changes to Wellington train operations to address current issues with crowded peak time trains and resulting problems with fare collection.

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CHRISTCHURCH — The Greater Wellington region is actively involved in providing support to people affected by yesterday's Christchurch earthquake, Regional Council Chair Fran Wilde said.

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WELLINGTON — One of the world’s Top 100 invasive species is at large in the Wellington region and Greater Wellington Regional Council wants your help to find more sites of it.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington has teamed up with the local Nursery and Garden Industry Association retailers to make it easier for gardeners to conserve water this summer.

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WELLINGTON — Mulch your garden this November, and you’ll be set for a healthy summer garden that’s also water efficient.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington pest plant staff were delighted to see two of the region’s nastiest climbing and smothering weeds turn up at a weed swap in Wellington in September.

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WELLINGTON — With less than four days to go until the local government elections, Greater Wellington Regional Council’s Electoral Officer Margaret Meek is keen to see as many voters as possible vote.

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WELLINGTON — Spring is on its way and with it comes the urge to get out into the garden and do some tidying up.

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WELLINGTON — A guide outlining easy step-by-step instructions for how to prepare for an emergency, published by the Wellington Region Emergency Management Group, has won the International Association of Emergency Managers 2010 Global Public Awareness Award.

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WELLINGTON — Among the last of 25,000 poplar and willow poles being planted for soil conservation in 2010 were driven home at Eringa in Longbush Valley east of Carterton last week (17 September).

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington has secured an option to buy land owned by AgResearch at Kaitoke, adjacent to State Highway 2, with the intention of investigating the land to find out if it’s suitable for a water storage lake.

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WELLINGTON — Milky white discharges, iron oxide-coloured liquid and foam have been entering the Takapu Stream recently and Greater Wellington is keen to hear from anyone who may know more.

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WELLINGTON — People will be able to get on board and take a look around the first of Wellington’s new trains next month.

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WELLINGTON — Planting 10,000 native plants seems daunting but yesterday at Queen Elizabeth Park volunteers from around the region proved that many hands make light work, completing the task in just three hours.

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WELLINGTON — Is your work benefitting environmental restoration, conservation and heritage in the Wellington region? Do you want to inspire others to help out too? If so, why not apply for an ENCORE Award.

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WELLINGTON — This year marks 10 years of Greater Wellington's environmental restoration programme Take Care and we want you to join us in celebrating with a massive tree planting day at Queen Elizabeth Park.

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WELLINGTON — What do you want Wairarapa’s environment to look like in ten years time? What do you want it to be like in 30 years time? As we divide our time between work, family, friends and commitments, we don’t often get a chance to think about the big questions.

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WELLINGTON — The first new Matangi train has left on a ship from South Korea and is expected to arrive in Wellington in about three or four weeks.

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WELLINGTON — What's your view on how we should look after the region's air, waterways, coasts, soils and biodiversity? It's a question that Greater Wellington Regional Council is asking the community in a two-month series of workshops around the region, starting this week.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council recently led a successful consortium bid to procure Baring Head Station, a 240ha property at the end of the Wainuiomata Coast Road that contains the Baring Head lighthouse.

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WELLINGTON — This Friday, students at Greytown School will celebrate the success of an environmental project that involved them project-managing major environmental restoration works.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council decided at its meeting today to increase its income from rates and levies by 1.72% for the 2010/11 financial year.

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OTAKI — A new fence going up today [25 June] will protect some of Otaki Beach's most important dunes from motorbikes, 4WDs and other vehicles.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council Chair Fran Wilde and Minister of Conservation Kate Wilkinson today [18 June 2010] announced a consortium bid to buy a 240ha block of land at Baring Head had been successful.

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WELLINGTON — A new partnership approach to resource management is the best way to clean up the natural resources of the Wellington region, says the chair of the Greater Wellington Regional Council, Fran Wilde.

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WELLINGTON — A community planting day will be held this weekend to celebrate the completion in February this year of an upgrade to the Whirinaki Crescent stopbank.

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WELLINGTON — The key principles underpinning the management of Greater Wellington’s parks network, and maps outlining future changes to parks are key features of the Greater Wellington Parks Network Plan – Draft.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council, the Wellington Hawke’s Bay Conservation Board and the Department of Conservation are joining forces to recognise and reward the groups, businesses and individuals going the extra mile for environmental restoration and conservation in the Wellington region They are offering a combined environmental awards programme, Encore - recognising and rewarding commitment to the environment, conservation and restoration in the Wellington region.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Councillors have approved changes to the proposed new Regional Policy Statement (RPS) – the highest level planning tool in the region.

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WAIRARAPA — What landscapes make Wairarapa special and why? How should they be recognised and managed? Those questions will be the focus of public consultation on a project that is assessing Wairarapa’s landscapes run by the three Wairarapa district councils and Greater Wellington.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington’s Environmental Regulation Department will issue a formal warning to the Council’s Flood Protection Department following an investigation into the discharge of contaminated material from the Waiwhetu Stream Remediation Project to the Waiu Street cleanfill in Wainuiomata last year.

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MASTERTON — Children at Douglas Park School in Masterton are about to have “feet on” road safety lessons, with the transformation of part of their playground into a road, with its very own roundabout, give way signs and pedestrian crossings.

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WELLINGTON — After 18 months spent excavating 56,000 tonnes of contaminated silt, a cleaner, deeper and wider Waiwhetu Stream is about to start flowing naturally again.

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WAIRARAPA — The District Court has convicted and fined south Wairarapa landowner Lloyd Rayner $37,000 for illegal stream works in the Tauherenikau Delta, on the northern fringe of Lake Wairarapa.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington’s Wainuiomata water pipe upgrade project is about to hit the road as it progresses from William Jones Park to Wainuiomata’s Main Road next week.

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PARAPARAUMU — Over the following month a number of improvements will be carried out on the Paraparaumu Line, from replacing overhead wires and poles at some sites, to installing new railway sleepers at others.

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WELLINGTON — The first stage in the groundbreaking transformation of Greytown School’s North Creek gets underway today - and the great thing about it is that it's all thanks to Greytown School students, past and present.

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UPPER HUTT — Users of the Hutt River Trail can look forward to funky new seats and picnic tables replacing the varied and tiring collection currently on the trail.

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WELLINGTON — Easy walks that take in mature native bush, grassy ridges and panoramic views are few and far between in Wairarapa.

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WELLINGTON — Mechanical tree-trimming and mulching is standard maintenance for hedges and an efficient way for trimming willows that are hanging over the Waipoua River in Masterton.

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WELLINGTON — Work commenced today on Porirua City Council's southern Okowai Lagoon to create a freshwater wetland that will restore the lagoon’s appearance and improve water quality and habitat for its freshwater species.

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WELLINGTON — Public feedback is sought on the proposed Regional Land Transport Strategy (RLTS), the region’s transport policy blueprint for land transport investment over the next 30 years.

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WELLINGTON — Metlink public transport information is moving with the times and you’re invited to find out how - and be in to win daily prizes over the next fortnight (8 – 21 March 2010).

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WELLINGTON — From today (4 March 2010), ratepayers in the Greater Wellington region can apply to the Regional Council for up to $2,600 as a top up for support offered by EECA for home insulation and clean heating for their homes.

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WELLINGTON — The first of Wellington’s new Matangi trains is due to arrive in August, and passengers can expect to be onboard before Christmas.

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WAINUIOMATA — Greater Wellington is replacing 300m of water supply pipeline along Wainuiomata’s Main Road to improve the security of our water supply in a major earthquake.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington is offering you a chance to see bachelor North Island robins in their natural habitat this Saturday (20 February) in the East Harbour Robin Walk.

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WELLINGTON — There’s a great “sunscreen” for your garden that fights summer dryness by locking in moisture, and helps to suppress weeds and improve soil structure.

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WELLINGTON — East Harbour Regional Park is proving to be a popular regional destination with visits topping 170,000 in the past year according to Greater Wellington’s recently released Regional Parks Annual Report for 2008/09.

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WELLINGTON — It’s been a good year for water supply to the region’s cities – the cost of bulk water has been held down and the volume of water supplied was the lowest in nine years.

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WELLINGTON — Last night’s 7.8 earthquake in Southland would cause destruction on a massive scale if it occurred in the Wellington region, says Fran Wilde, Chair of Greater Wellington Regional Council.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council today decided to increase its rates income by 3.8% for the 2009/10 financial year.

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WELLINGTON — Nominations are now open for the annual Greater Wellington Environmental Awards.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington has asked Exide Technologies Ltd to provide lead to air discharge monitoring results from its Petone battery recycling plant after an explosion there last Friday.

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WELLINGTON — It's time to register for Restoration Day, a day of free seminars and workshops held each year for individuals and community groups who are currently working on environmental restoration projects in the Wellington region.

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The demolition of the toilets at the Rimutaka Summit, scheduled to take place today, has been postponed to protect the contracted demolition company staff from protestors.

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WELLINGTON — Rural Wairarapa people are saying loud and clear they do not want to go back to the bad old days when possums were chewing away at farms, forests and gardens says Greater Wellington’s Wairarapa Councillor Ian Buchanan.

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WELLINGTON — Wellingtons railway lines will be humming this Easter as Ontrack takes advantage of the quiet holiday period to carry on with its programme of improvements around the region.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington has published its environmental regulation annual report cards, highlighting the council's regulatory and pollution prevention work in the 2007/08 financial year.

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LOWER HUTT — Naenae Station and subway will be closed for four days over Easter, so the subway can be cleaned and made safer.

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WELLINGTON CITY — Greater Wellington is asking for public submissions on its proposed Regional Policy Statement, which sets out how we will sustainably manage our region's natural and physical resources.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council has completed its second staff engagement survey and the results show steady progress.

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WELLINGTON — Wairarapa issues figure prominently in Greater Wellington’s Long Term Council Community Plan says Wairarapa councillor Ian Buchanan.

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WELLINGTON — People in the Wellington region are encouraged to have their say on what should be the new transport projects over the next three years.

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WELLINGTON — A proposal to take groundwater for dairy pasture irrigation from bores near Taumata Lagoon has been declined by a Greater Wellington Hearing Committee.

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WELLINGTON — The official opening of the new $300,000 subway at Plimmerton Railway Station will take place at 11am on Saturday 24 May.

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WELLINGTON — Last year, David Benham, Chief Executive of Greater Wellington Regional Council, commissioned the Gallup Organisation to use its survey tools to undertake a staff engagement survey at the Council.

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WELLINGTON — Wellington city councillor Andy Foster, and his team mate Greg Thurlow, have won the 2008 Metlink city safari, held last Sunday.

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WELLINGTON — Ongoing vandalism in Greater Wellington’s regional park network is getting worse, with park rangers calling on the public to help curb the increase.

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WELLINGTON — Bikes will travel free of charge on Wellington and Wairarapa trains from 1 July.

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WELLINGTON — A stunning summer and action-packed events equalled an impressive attendance for Greater Wellington's Regional Outdoors Programme this year.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington is proposing several short-term measures to provide more water at peak times and reduce the risk of shortages.

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GREYTOWN — The Wairarapa township of Greytown will become a “Greentown” for a month this year, starting on World Environment Day on 5 June and ending on 3 July – Greytown’s traditional Arbor Day.

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WELLINGTON — High quality, high frequency public transport in Wellington city, new and improved walking and cycle routes, dedicated bus lanes on Hutt Road between Ngauranga Gorge and Thorndon Quay, additional lanes between Ngauranga Gorge and Aotea Quay during peak times, graded traffic separations at Basin Reserve, roundabouts on Cobham Drive, and detailed feasibility studies for duplication of the Mt Victoria and Terrace tunnels are part of the draft plan (PDF, 716KB) for the Ngauranga to Airport corridor.

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WELLINGTON — A Greater Wellington Hearing Committee has granted consent for a proposal to develop the Overseas Passenger Terminal into an apartment and retail complex.

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WELLINGTON — More than 4,500 Wellingtonians have expressed their interest in how to keep the city on the move for the next 30 years in their submissions on the Ngauranga to Airport Strategy Study’s second stage of consultation.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council today announced that it will be buying an additional 20 new electric commuter train units in addition to the 70 that it has already ordered.

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WELLINGTON — On Wednesday 30 April there will be no GO Wellington bus services from 10am – 2pm.

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WELLINGTON — If you’ve driven over Kaitoke Hill recently, you may have noticed that one of the two Te Marua water storage lakes has been completely drained.

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PARAPARAUMU — Preparatory work for double-tracking and electrification of the railway line from McKays Crossing to Waikanae will begin within the next few months.

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WELLINGTON — A plan to encourage Wellingtonians to walk more, and to improve walking facilities and networks, is being released by Greater Wellington for public consultation.

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WELLINGTON — Visitors to East Harbour Regional Park can get an even better look at its beautiful wetlands with the completion of a walking circuit around Lakes Kohangapiripiri and Kohangatera.

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WELLINGTON — The Environment Court has convicted Resource Management consultants Cardno TCB for failing to comply with a developer's resource consent while piping a tributary of Duck Creek within the James Cook Connection subdivision in Whitby.

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WELLINGTON — Details of Kapiti Coast station upgrades and train stabling facilities that will support the electrification and double-tracking extensions to Waikanae were announced by Greater Wellington Regional Council’s chair Fran Wilde tonight.

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WELLINGTON — Wellington City Council is pleased at the proposed changes to building industry rules announced today by the Government.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council (Greater Wellington) is to prosecute Exide Technologies Limited (Exide) for a second breach of its lead-to-air discharge resource consent conditions.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington Regional Council today approved the Proposed Annual Plan for the 2008/09 year.

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WELLINGTON — Greater Wellington says that independent monitoring now in place will assist it to establish whether log fumigation with methyl bromide at Port of Wellington is compliant with the Regional Air Quality Management Plan.

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WELLINGTON —  The sprinkler and irrigation system ban for Wellington, Porirua, Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt is still in place, as the dry weather continues and water supply levels drop.

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WELLINGTON — The beautiful farmland and panoramic views of Battle Hill Farm Forest Park in Pauatahanui also hold a fascinating, tragic history, which was portrayed to the public at the launch of the Battle Hill Historical Trail last weekend.

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WELLINGTON — Options for public transport in the Greater Wellington region will be discussed at a series of seven community forums to be held across the region over the next few weeks.

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Do you have banned or unwanted agrichemicals on your farm? Greater Wellington is currently compiling a list of rural properties throughout the region for a collection of agrichemicals planned for mid 2008.

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WELLINGTON — The hunt is on for groups, organisations, schools and individuals tackling weed issues in their communities for nomination for the 2008 Regional Weedbusters Awards.

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MASTERTON — A meeting in Masterton last night formed a committee in response to the current drought, which the Greater Wellington Regional Council says is one of the worst in many decades.

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WELLINGTON — Do you care about our environment? Have you been involved with school and local community environmental / restoration projects? Greater Wellington Regional Council, Ministry for the Environment and the Sir Peter Blake Trust are looking for applicants from years 11, 12 and 13 for the Sir Peter Blake Youth Environment Forum to be held in Wellington between 27 April and 1 May.

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WELLINGTON — A comprehensive water strategy is on the cards for the Wellington region following agreement by local political leaders to work in a collaborative exercise.

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WAIRARAPA — The final addition to Wairarapa’s brand new bus fleet is now up and running, giving Wairarapa bus passengers a greatly enhanced service.

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WELLINGTON — A $12,500 payment towards stream rehabilitation, $10,000 towards legal costs and a court order to remediate the polluted section of the Oteranga Stream are the positives from Greater Wellington's successful prosecution of Capital Egg Company Ltd and Associates for the illegal dumping of chicken farm waste on Terawhiti Station in south Makara.

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WELLINGTON — Children in more than 60 primary schools around the Wellington region will move out of the car and onto the footpaths when the Feet First Walk to School Week kicks off next Monday (3 March).

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