Two Police officers are shaken but unharmed after their patrol car was hit by a suspected intoxicated driver early on Sunday. The police car was travelling along Waiwhetu Road about 1am when another vehicle crossed the centre line and crashed ...
Emergency services are responding to a crash on Puke Road (State Highway 2), Paeroa involving a quadbike and police vehicle. The two occupants on the quadbike are in moderate and serious conditions. The road is closed at the scene while a scene examination ...
A 34-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to a death in Pātea on Saturday 24 August. Police were called to a family harm incident at a Dorset Street address at around 8.55am and located a 60-year-old man with critical injuries. Tragically ...
It is clear the government is feeling the pressure from the people of New Zealand. However, we must remain vigilant. We can’t afford to take our eyes off the ball yet, or we risk losing more of our unique natural heritage that defines us.
The Bill still rides roughshod over the Conservation Act, the Reserves Act, the Environmental Protection Authority, Local and regional government standards, plans and consent provisions, and it suspends a host of other environmental protection measures.
National must listen to the countless environmental groups, experts and iwi that say they don’t want this Bill out of fear for the damage it will cause. We can certainly have a process that speeds up decision-making for projects, but it must ...
The main problem with the Bill remains that the decision-making criteria are still heavily weighted in favour of development over the environment. Given the way the purpose clause is drafted, it’s hard to see any project being turned down, whether ...
CAFT questioned what drove the Cabinet to make these decisions, ahead of the Select Committee reporting the Bill back to Parliament.
The key part of the Fast Track Bill remains in place after these changes - projects will still be assessed on purely economic criteria which totally override environmental criteria.
The Herald reports: Welcome to Wellington, where council leaders from around the country have met in a convention centre that the Prime Minister thinks is an example of wasteful spending and is just down the road from a burst water main that has turned a street into a paddling pool. The Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) conference started today in the capital. Prime […]
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The overwhelming opposition to this legislation has already forced the Government to backtrack on its fast track. We must maintain this pressure and ensure our environment is not driven towards ruin. Now more than ever, we need to make our voices heard.
Folded Landscapes will continue from September 12-28, giving you plenty of time to re-visit the exhibition with friends and family.
A feature on the international Freeride World Qualifier Tour calendar for well over a decade, The North Face Frontier has provided a proving ground for several of New Zealand’s most successful freeride athletes.
In 2010, BAE Systems was sentenced to pay a $400 million criminal fine, one of the largest criminal fines in the history of US corruption cases.
During August 2024, the "israeli" occupation further reduced the "humanitarian zones" to 35 square kilometers, equivalent to 9.5% of the Strip's total area, of which approximately 3.5% includes agricultural, service, and commercial areas.
The pipeline is being built near Lake Rotokākahi, considered to be a sacred site. It is the resting place of some 120 people killed in the Mount Tarawera eruption of 1886.
Police can confirm one person has died following a crash on State Highway 3, Pakaraka. The single-vehicle crash was reported to Police around 12.30am. Another person was transported to hospital with serious to moderate injuries. The Serious Crash Unit ...
Police investigating the death of a man in Blockhouse Bay are appealing for information from the public. Detective Inspector Glenn Baldwin, Auckland City CIB, says Police continue to make enquiries to locate the person responsible. “This is an absolute ...
This insightful and solicitous movie makes clear many organised religious institutions and other delusional cults that offer only a punitive pathway to salvation still have a lot of issues for which they must atone.
The Coalition Government is cutting through the jumble of consenting processes so we can deliver new infrastructure up and down the country, grow our economy, and provide much needed new jobs for the regions.
We need more electricity, especially renewable energy. But once again actually getting consent is the problem. We currently have high wholesale rates due to shortages, and
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