Local Council

Water restrictions imposed two weeks ago have been lifted - but demand on water supplies still needs to be kept buttoned down, the council says.

It says the closure will keep the proposed rates increase for Napier ratepayers below 7.9 percent.

The Kapiti Coast District Council posted on Facebook that it needed to clear the pool for hygiene reasons a few too many times.

RNZ can reveal that fourth generation Hawke's Bay farmer Marcus Buddo is putting his hat in the ring to be mayor of Hastings District.

There are 14 councils that have been ordered to fluoridate some or all of their drinking water, but who's following the order and who's fighting back?

The Dunedin City Council and Christchurch City Council are considering teaming up for Three Waters work.

Carterton District Council been unable to implement proposed speed reductions because of a coalition government transport rule.

The closure of a popular walkway on a rail bridge across the Hutt River has been put on hold to allow Hutt City Council time to develop an alternative.

Southland's regional council has failed to meet its duties to monitor and protect wetlands, the High Court has ruled, in a landmark court case.

The Marlborough District Council will end its rates remissions to the owners of properties that were red or yellow-stickered in the August 2022 storm.

Napier City Council has thrown its support behind the agency, which will have its Hawke's Bay Regional Council funding axed from June.

In March last year the 135-year-old racecourse moved to change the entire 35 hectares to a terrace and apartment buildings zone under Council's PC78 Intensification process.

The Auditor-General's office wants the government to do long-term planning like councils, who have done well despite "significant uncertainty" over transport and water policy.

A councillor has shared the terror felt by an 11-year-old inside Te Atatū's library during a Destiny Church demonstration at the weekend.

Taranaki councillors have voted to investigate why a debate on the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill was shut down by conservative councillors at a December meeting.