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Twizel tops funding to control wilding pines in Canterbury
$5 million has been funded for the project by Environment Canterbury.
$5 million has been funded for the project by Environment Canterbury.
The cost includes research, concept development, cultural engagement, and testing.
About 400,000 old car tyres had been dumped on Canterbury property.
Almost empty buses still provide an important service, say providers.
Buses, trains only for essential workers after tomorrow.
Environment Canterbury became the first regional council in the country to declare.
Nearly 2000 eels were found dead in Canterbury creek in April.
COMMENT: Minister's lack of action on vital resource letting council dig in defences.
Fire and Emergency have controlled a large tyre fire on Racecourse Rd in North Canterbury.
Proponent met ECan staff to discuss his plan, but they were "condescending and negative".
Rain continues to fall in Christchurch but Canterbury escapes worst of Cyclone Debbie
Six homes are less than 200m away from Winstone Aggregate's Yaldhurst quarry on Old West Coast Rd.
The city council is applying to Environment Canterbury to continue discharging untreated wastewater into the waterways and harbours in emergencies.
Scientists are still trying to understand the strange tsunami activity that occurred in last month's 7.8 Kaikoura Earthquake - and have called upon people to help them.
Repairs to South Island stopbanks damaged in the Kaikōura earthquake is expected to cost nearly $700,000.
INTERACTIVE: Dams created by landslides in this month's 7.8 quake have been pin-pointed on a detailed new map created by GNS Science and Environment Canterbury.
Christchurch police are being investigated for pouring hundreds of litres of booze into a drain.
Environment Canterbury is publishing credit card expenditure on their website in a bid to increase its "openness and transparency."
NZ farmers are facing summer water restrictions in some regions as an El Nino weather pattern develops.
About 1500 litres of aviation fuel leaked into Lyttelton Harbour after a storage tank was damaged by a landslip during the storm that hit the area earlier this week.
It's been attributed to silage and cat poop - but no one is any closer to identifying the real source of Christchurch's mystery stink.
Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.
Hundreds of "battle hardened'' Cantabrians descended on the eerie half-demolished central city to voice concerns over the Government's proposed schools shake-up.
Today the Weekend Herald salutes the winners of the annual Sir Peter Blake Leadership Awards, which honour one of the country's greatest leaders, the late Sir Peter Blake.