Good Gypsy Day planning key to preventing pest plant spread
Farmers are being urged to do their bit to protect farms from damaging pest plants by ensuring machinery, vehicles and equipment have been cleaned.
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Farmers are being urged to do their bit to protect farms from damaging pest plants by ensuring machinery, vehicles and equipment have been cleaned.
A treatment programme now being rolled out on Waikato’s Coromandel Peninsula is bringing new hope to trees infected with kauri dieback.
There will be more than the usual action at Raglan Wharf next week, with Waikato Regional Council staff to be engaged in a five-hour marine oil spill exercise.
Heavy rain is likely to be responsible for flushing additional amounts of an unidentified foamy substance into the Waikato River at Hamilton this morning.
Waikato Regional Council on-call staff are responding to reports of a foamy substance discharging from Hamilton’s stormwater system into the Waikato River.
Two days of scattered rain over the past two weeks has been enough to encourage new pasture growth, helping to raise morale amongst Waikato’s farmers.
Waikato Regional Council staff at the scene of the Hampton Downs landfill fire today can confirm there has been no run off from the site into nearby waterways.
Waikato Regional Council has today recognised the University of Waikato’s top water sciences student.
Waikato Regional Council is sticking to its 2018-2028 Long Term Plan with the approval of the draft 2019/20 Annual Plan budget.
A fertiliser company has been convicted and fined $45,000 for unlawfully discharging chicken effluent leachate into the Waitakaruru River at Maramarua.
Waikato’s agricultural industry representatives have stepped up their meeting frequency to allow them to better monitor and respond to ongoing conditions.
People in the Waipā district living with mobility challenges are being encouraged to register for a scheme aimed at making it easier for them to get out.
More free buses and a new direct route from The Base will operate to give people hassle-free transport to Balloons Over Waikato Nightglow.
The Waikato public is being asked for its views on whether a more consistent regulatory framework is required to help stop the spread of marine pests across New
Despite a little rain last weekend, Waikato and South Auckland farmers are being encouraged to put their hands up promptly if they need advice.
Waikato Regional Council has completed giving its opening evidence to a hearings panel on a bold plan to improve the health of the Waikato and Waipā rivers.
There is likely to be very little impact to the environment from a yacht leaking fuel at Anarake Point, this morning.
Passion in environmental science and restoration lands two exceptional Waikato rangatahi front row seats alongside some of Waikato’s best governance leaders.
Cambridge farming company and one of its directors each convicted of eight charges under the Resource Management Act, and been fined a total of $131,840.
Carriages for the new Hamilton-Auckland start-up rail service are being stripped for refurbishment and other work to keep the project on track is also underway.
