Environment

Frankliners benefit from rural water funds

Applications are now open for the Waterway Protection and Making Space for Rural Water Funds, intended to help improve water quality, reduce erosion and...

Healthy Home, Healthy Planet Expo… healthy Pukekohe?

The world may be going through big changes, but small changes really do add up when it comes to sustainability. The Healthy Home, Healthy Planet...

$2.8m upgrade – Cleve (not quite but nearly) done

With Franklin infrastructure projects in full swing, even in Clevedon they’re feeling the boom. A $2.8 million town centre upgrade is now another step closer...

Endorsement criteria for enviro schemes

The government has released criteria for endorsing schemes in New Zealand’s voluntary nature and carbon markets, Associate Environment Minister Andrew Hoggard says. “For voluntary markets...

Can we fix it? Yes, Repair Fest suggests

Ending is not better than mending, the Repair Festival Aotearoa is set to prove. With more than 50 events, including in Waiuku, the festival will...

Fed (not) up with TOP

The Opportunity Party’s climate change policy is ideological, unaffordable and totally unnecessary nonsense, Federated Farmers claims. "The Opportunity Party has now exposed themselves as an...

Deceased dolphin found in Kawakawa Bay

By Times’ Junior Journalist Josh Arnold A deceased dolphin was recently discovered in the waters off Kawakawa Bay. The animal was found with extensive bruising...

Ben again – ‘shooting’ Franklin bats

Waiuku-based Finding Franklin Bats is finding that finding Franklin bats should become a little easier. Armed with a Canon (or several), the Auckland Council-assisted initiative...

Plan change paused?

Applying the brakes to Plan Change 1 (PC1) by Waikato Regional Council (WRC) will likely meet with approval on both sides of the Bombays. A...

Kokako on mercy mission

Local comeback kings, the native kōkako are set to take their show on the road. A well-known success story, the revitalisation of the kōkako in...