Northland Regional Council

DARGAVILLE — Landowners are being urged to report any sightings of one of Northland's worst plant pests – Manchurian wild rice - and help stop its spread by cleaning and checking farm machinery.

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NORTHLAND — New 10-trip transfer tickets designed to take some of the hassle out of making longer cross-town trips are now available for Whangarei's CityLink public bus service.

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WHANGAREI — Diggers will be a common sight in the Waiarohia Stream and Hatea River over the next two months as a major river maintenance project to reduce urban Whangarei flooding gets underway.

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NORTHLAND — Northland’s Deputy Harbourmaster is reminding anyone using a jetski on the region’s waters that it must be registered and that the popular craft shouldn’t be used by unsupervised young people.

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NORTHLAND — Maritime officials say too many boaties are risking injury – or worse – by anchoring or fishing in places that put them at risk from the large ships visiting Northland harbours.

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NORTHLAND — Northland biosecurity experts have asked the Environmental Protection Authority for permission to import and release two species of host-specific fungi to tackle one of the world’s most invasive weeds.

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NORTHLAND — A new plan – which will provide a strategic blueprint for the region’s public transport for the next six years – has been released for public comment.

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WHANGAREI — Fifty-five students from throughout Northland gathered recently for the 2011 Northland Regional Council Youth Summit in Whangarei.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being asked for feedback on proposed bylaw changes designed to make our harbours and estuaries safer and reflect changing recreational use of them.

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NORTHLAND — Time is running out for Northlanders to have their say on an initial draft of an important new planning tool which will set out how the region’s natural and physical resources should be managed.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders keen to learn more about the aggressive Argentine ant – and how best to tackle it – are being urged to register now for one of three free workshops.

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NORTHLAND — Biological control experts are hailing the success of a parasitic wasp which is proving highly effective in battling a clover-decimating pest in Northland.

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NORTHLAND — Bream Bay residents are to be surveyed from next month to gauge demand for the possible reintroduction of a public bus service between Ruakaka and Whangarei.

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NORTHLAND — A combination of $161,000 extra government funding and desire to better accommodate affected landowners has prompted changes to planned flood protection work for Kaeo.

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WHANGAREI — Northlanders are being invited to a public meeting in Whangarei later this month to hear what preparations the region has in place to deal with marine oil spills.

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NORTHLAND — Far North Holdings Limited chief executive and Kawakawa resident Malcolm Nicolson has been appointed as the Northland Regional Council’s new Chief Executive Officer.

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NORTHLAND — Northland should escape serious pollution problems from mass milk dumpings provided farmers follow suggested local guidelines, the Northland Regional Council says.

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NORTHLAND — Northland’s dairy farmers are advised to follow local guidelines for dumping milk in the wake of a major Taranaki gas leak which may effectively force the region’s dairy factories out of action for several days.

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NORTHLAND — A tsunami advisory issued after an early morning earthquake off the Kermadec Islands today has been cancelled – but Northlanders are still being warned to watch for unusual tidal conditions throughout today.

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NORTHLAND — A new booklet urging Northlanders to abandon damaging introduced plants in favour of similar, but harmless, native and exotics will be released shortly.

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WHANGAREI — Officials hope to eventually release a parasitic wasp to target an unwanted Aussie invader recently discovered in Whangarei – and whose caterpillar stage has poisonous spines that can deliver painful stings.

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NORTHLAND — A local authority fund set up in the mid-1990s to help people improve and protect Northland’s natural environment will have given away about $4.2 million by the end of this financial year.

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NORTHLAND — People keen to learn more about some of the worst pests threatening Northland’s special marine environment are being urged to register now for one of a series of free workshops around the region.

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NORTHLAND — More than 20 experts across a range of areas from stream-dwelling insects to environmental puppetry are to share their knowledge with an estimated 200 Northland Enviroschools students and teachers next week.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being urged to remain vigilant and do their bit to help curb the spread of the kiwifruit vine-killing disease PSA and other unwanted nasties, including pest plants and animals.

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WHANGAREI — Whangarei's CityLink bus service is reminding patrons that it will be extending its services again for next week's Tonga versus Japan Rugby World Cup match at the Northland Events Centre.

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KERIKERI — A 16-year-old Kerikeri High School student’s study into iodine levels in horse feeds and supplements has earned her this year’s Northland Regional Council ‘Excellence Award’ at the Top Energy Far North Science and Technology Fair.

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NORTHLAND — A scheme designed to support local communities wanting to control plant and animal pests themselves is proving increasingly popular, with hundreds of Northlanders signing up more than 33,000 hectares of private land.

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More than 50 Northland students are to gain hands-on knowledge of possum trapping, fur and pelt recovery in what is believed to be a national first for the popular Enviroschools programme.

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NORTHLAND — Shopping trolleys, tyres, an armchair and even a small section of broken headstone were among 1380 kilogrammes of rubbish collected from Whangarei’s Hatea River recently by local authority staff doing their bit for ‘Clean Up NZ Week’.

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NORTHLAND — The forestry industry is being urged to lift its game to ensure harvesting and earthworks meet rules designed to protect the environment from harmful sediment discharges.

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Northlanders keen to learn more about some of the worst weeds threatening our region – and how best to tackle them – are being urged to register now for one of a series of free workshops.

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WHANGAREI — Local authority staff have removed two derelict boats which had long laid abandoned on the northern banks of Whangarei’s Waiarohia canal after concerns they could pose a risk to other vessels.

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NORTHLAND — Its pretty pink flowers are viewed by some as a welcome sign of spring’s approach, but Northlanders are being urged to join forces to tackle Taiwan cherry because of the invasive risk it poses to our native bush.

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NORTHLAND — An independent commissioner has allowed two applications to take millions of litres of water a day from the Poroti Springs area, including one by the Whangarei District Council, which already uses the resource to supplement the city’s public supply.

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Projects from energy efficient olive harvesting to planting natives to cut highway traffic noise are among 21 school initiatives to share this year’s $20,000 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs).

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NORTHLAND — A Northland-wide tsunami warning issued after an early morning earthquake off the Kermadec Islands today has been lifted – but Northlanders are still being warned to watch for unusual tidal conditions throughout today.

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NORTHLAND — People along Northland’s coast are being warned to stay away from beaches and estuaries after confirmation a tsunami is headed our way after an early morning earthquake off the Kermadec Islands today.

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NORTHLAND — A small school near Whangarei has become the first area school in New Zealand to scoop the equivalent of a seldom-granted environmental Oscar award from the national Enviroschools programme.

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NORTHLAND — Parents looking for cheap, fun activities for their children in the upcoming school holidays are being urged to take advantage of a special deal offering free bus travel and entry to Whangarei’s kiwi house and museum.

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NORTHLAND — Half the estimated 4000 poplars poles needed annually for Northland erosion control work are expected to be sourced through new partnerships between the Northland Regional Council and six local growers.

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NORTHLAND — Proposals to redirect the Northland Regional Council’s income and for flood protection works in all three districts have been confirmed as part of the council’s newly-adopted 2011-2012 Annual Plan.

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NORTHLAND — Increasing numbers of tiny eco-warriors are being conscripted by the Northland Regional Council to battle on its behalf against a host of pest plant and insect enemies.

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NORTHLAND — The recent releases of two clusters of tiny South American beetles may offer one of Northland’s best hopes in tackling a plant pest despised by conservationists, landowners and gardeners alike.

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NORTHLAND — About 220 submissions have been received on the Northland Regional Council’s draft annual plan with proposals to redirect council’s investment income and for new river rates, genetic engineering and the future of regional rail common themes.

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NORTHLAND — A Northland farm owner has been fined $54,000 – and his farm manager $10,000 – for offences relating to dairy effluent discharges at an Awarua farm.

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NORTHLAND — Almost three years into a major $1 million-plus campaign to tackle one of Northland’s worst pest plants, organisers believe they are beginning to turn the tide in a lengthy war on Manchurian wild rice.

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NORTHLAND — A panel of three independent commissioners has rejected an application to completely strip Mangawhai Harbour of all its mangroves.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders have a month left from today (subs: until Weds 11 May) to apply for a share of 8000 free native plants worth more than $20,000.

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NORTHLAND — Northland’s Rugby World Cup 2011 planning team has been overwhelmed with the large numbers and high calibre of Northland volunteers.

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NORTHLAND — Rugby World Cup 2011 organisers are urging Northlanders to quickly put their hands up for volunteer roles as time is fast running out.

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NORTHLAND — ‘Stay out of the water and off the beach’ is the message Graeme MacDonald, Group Controller Northland CDEM Group wants people to hear as predicted strong tidal flows and surges are felt around Northland.

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NORTHLAND — A tsunami marine and minor land threat warning – issued by the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (MCDEM) in response to an earthquake (magnitude 8.9) off the coast of Japan just before 7pm yesterday – remain in place for Northland.

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NORTHLAND — Civil Defence officials are reminding Christchurch residents who may have ‘self-evacuated’ to Northland in the wake of last week’s earthquake of the range of assistance that may be available to them.

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NORTHLAND — Renewed health warnings have been issued against swimming or the taking of seafood from rivers or the inner harbours of the Bay of Islands The warning was issued by Medical Officers of Health today as a precaution against infections and diseases in the wake of flooding at the weekend.

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DARGAVILLE — Ice creams topped with frozen wasp larvae will be the latest wild food treat the Northland Regional Council is hoping will lure visitors to its marquee at next month's Dargaville field days.

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NORTHLAND — Northland is cleaning up in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Wilma with crews working to reopen roads around the region.

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NORTHLAND — River levels in Northland are already dropping after the worst of the torrential rain moved south early this morning.

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NORTHLAND — The remains of Tropical Cyclone Wilma that hit Northland overnight exceeded expectations lashing the region with heavy rain causing surface flooding, road closures and rain-swollen rivers topping their banks The bad weather arrived as forecasted with heavy rain saturating the region’s eastern hills north of Kaeo with 270mm to Whangarei in the south with 220mm.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders – especially those in northern and eastern parts of the region – are being warned they may face widespread flooding this weekend with up to 350mm of rain predicted to fall by midnight Sunday.

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WHANGAREI — More than 140 landowners in Whangarei’s Otaika catchment have provided details of their water use as part of a pilot local authority programme designed to ensure the region’s water resources aren’t over-allocated in future.

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NORTHLAND — Landowners in Whangarei’s Otaika catchment are being asked to provide details of their water use as part of a pilot local authority programme designed to ensure the region’s water resources aren’t over-allocated in future.

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NORTHLAND — More than a dozen experts on a range of environmental initiatives from creating gecko gardens to earth building are to share their knowledge with over 160 Northland Enviroschools students and teachers later this month.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being urged to have their say on a discussion document that will help set the scene for a major rewrite of a local authority plan that will play a key role in the region’s future.

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NORTHLAND — Two high-ranking members of the Japanese Rugby Union will be in Northland next week on a pre Rugby World Cup 2011 fact-finding trip.

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NORTHLAND — A study into how well an urban carpark ‘rain garden’ cleans stormwater has earned a Whangarei student a $1000 Northland Regional Council award at the Central Northland Science and Technology Fair.

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WHANGAREI — The ratepayer-funded Northland Events Centre in Whangarei has been shortlisted in the 2010 World Architecture Festival Awards.

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NORTHLAND — Today’s announcement that the Government will contribute more than $2 million to an aeromagnetic minerals survey in Northland has been welcomed by the Far North District and Northland Regional Councils.

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NORTHLAND — People with pet rabbits are being warned to make sure the animals are vaccinated ahead of a controlled release of the rabbit-killing calicivirus in the Far North this month.

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WAIKATO — One of Northland's best-known 'weedbusters' has hung up his sprayer for the final time, signalling the end of more than 25 years fighting pest plants throughout the region.

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NORTHLAND — A campaign is to be mounted on illegal signs in the Far North to counter an upsurge in the number accumulating on roadsides, particularly on the approaches to urban areas such as Kerikeri and Paihia.

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NORTHLAND — Hundreds of thousand of juvenile money spiders are being blamed for a natural phenomenon that has prompted calls to the Northland Regional Council recently.

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NORTHLAND — Four hundred grass carp are to be released into Lake Heather, north of Kaitaia, in a bid to wipe out two invasive weeds threatening some of the nation’s most precious dune lakes.

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NORTHLAND — Projects from honey harvesting to ridding exotic plant pests are among 19 school initiatives to share this year’s $20,000 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards (ECAs).

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NORTHLAND — A trail of possum-killing cyanide poison laid illegally along an approximately two-kilometre long stretch of Kaipara forest road could have potentially put lives a risk, Northland Regional Council experts say.

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NORTHLAND — A thorough investigation of Tutukaka Harbour has turned up nothing unusual or invasive lurking under the water - a fact Northland Regional Council Biosecurity staff are thrilled about.

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Weekend rain has delivered further relief to parched eastern areas of Northland but the region overall still requires significantly more rain to end its worst drought in decades.

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NORTHLAND — Independent Commissioners have ruled Northland marine farmers should provide surety of $9000 a hectare or $6.95 per lineal metre of rack to cover the cost of cleaning up their oyster farms if they're abandoned.

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NORTHLAND — A fictional spill that sends tonnes of oil from a ship on to Bream Bay’s sandy beaches will form the basis of the latest regional oil spill exercise next month.

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NORTHLAND — Rain which fell on much of Northland yesterday and overnight was welcome, but once again will offer little long-term relief from the region’s ongoing drought, the Northland Regional Council says.

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NORTHLAND — Northland’s Rugby fans can mark an important milestone off their calendar when applications for tickets to Rugby World Cup 2011 open tomorrow (subs: Tuesday 27 April 2010).

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NORTHLAND — Schools are being urged to act quickly to try to win a share of this year’s $20,000 Northland Regional Council Environmental Curriculum Awards.

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NORTHLAND — Holiday weekend rain will have little practical effect on the region’s ongoing drought, Northland Regional Council experts say.

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NORTHLAND — Northland is marking New Zealand’s first Enviroschools Action Celebration Week in a range of diverse ways from beekeeping to papermaking.

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NORTHLAND — The Northland Regional Council is adding its voice to calls for Northlanders to join millions of others around the globe and switch off their lights and other electrical appliances to mark ‘Earth Hour 2010’.

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NORTHLAND — Ratepayers are being asked whether they’ll help fund initiatives designed to grow the region’s economy, improve its water quality and better manage mangroves and sediment as Northland Regional Councillors look to set rates for the year.

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NORTHLAND — Self – not public – interest is behind a looming push by Northland’s District Councils for a restructure of the region’s local government, Regional Councillors claim.

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NORTHLAND — Parts of Northland have experienced fluctuations in sea level and tidal surges have been reported in some East Coast areas as a tsunami generated by a Chilean earthquake impacts on the region.

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NORTHLAND — People along Northland’s east coast are being warned to stay away from beaches and estuaries as a tsunami heads towards New Zealand.

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DARGAVILLE — Breakfast sausages flavoured with the peppery natives kawakawa and horopito are the latest wild food treats the Northland Regional Council is hoping will lure visitors to its marquee at the upcoming Dargaville field days.

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NORTHLAND — Applications for the raft of consents needed to build the Whangarei District Council’s proposed multimillion dollar new bridge across the Hatea River have been lodged with the Northland Regional Council.

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NORTHLAND — An injured 76-year-old who battled 70 knot winds and 15 metre seas returning from last year’s Auckland to Noumea yacht race has been named the Northland Sailor of the Year for 2009.

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NORTHLAND — A major $1 million-plus campaign designed to halt the spread of the invasive Manchurian wild rice plant - and then steadily reduce its impact on Northland - is progressing well.

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WHANGAREI — Changes to Whangarei’s CityLink public bus service – including dropping a number of seldom-used trips – will take effect in a little over a fortnight’s time.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being urged to apply for a share of a multimillion dollar Government fund that will pay them to plant forests to help meet New Zealand’s obligations to reduce greenhouse gases.

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NORTHLAND — Public submissions on three strategies designed to provide a more streamlined, flexible regime for managing Northland’s plant and animal pests will be considered in Whangarei shortly.

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KAITAIA — More than $2 million of work including more than 200,000 cubic metres of earthworks and the removal of 2000-plus trees has resulted in marked improvements to the Awanui Flood Management Scheme, local authority experts say.

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NORTHLAND — Northlanders are being asked for their views on a long-term vision outlining the way the region’s transport infrastructure should be developed over the next 30 years.

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NORTHLAND — The drought rapidly tightening its grip on an increasingly parched Northland may soon force the Northland Regional Council to limit the water taken from the region’s rivers and streams, its hydrologists warn.

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