Archive: May, 2019

Local school awarded for getting active

  • Published Date 29 May 2019

St Claudine Thevenet School students Georgia O'Grady (left) and Canon Hakaraia with Greater Wellington Travel Choice Coordinator Kirsty Barr St Claudine Thevenet School scooped up a prize for the highest participation…

Town meets country at Belmont Regional Park

  • Published Date 29 May 2019

Belmont Regional Park farm licence holders Dion and Ali Kilmister are striving to reduce the urban-rural gap, and what better place for that than a farm that is run inside…

Childhood dream comes true

  • Published Date 24 May 2019

(From left): Lara Franklin, Hayden Smith, Justin Prout, Jonathan Tulitt, Lewis Otto, Sundeep Pinto, William Delaney A childhood dream has come true for one Wellingtonian who was officially signed off as Transdev's newest…

Big prizes for little movers

  • Published Date 23 May 2019

Lucky winners of $300 Avanti prizes drawn by selected by Greater Wellington’s Sustainable Transport Committee Chair Barbara Donaldson (left) and Travel Choice Coordinator Kirsty Barr Names have been drawn and winners…

Akura sale helps fight climate change

  • Published Date 22 May 2019

Greater Wellington Regional Council calls on locals to help fight climate change by planting more trees. Akura Plant Nursery based in the Wairarapa has been trialling, growing and supplying tree species…

Greater Wellington welcomes PTOM review announcement

  • Published Date 21 May 2019

Greater Wellington Regional Council has welcomed the decision by the Minster of Transport, Phil Twyford, to review the Public Transport Operating Model (PTOM). Greater Wellington Chair Cr Chris Laidlaw says it's…

What's living on our land?

  • Published Date 21 May 2019

  Greater Wellington environmental science team members Katherine deSilva and Barrett Pistol measuring a tree on a monitoring plot Environmental scientists have wrapped up year five of a project which allows changes…

Whaitua Committee elects Co-chairs for Wellington/Hutt Valley water work

  • Published Date 16 May 2019

Co-chair Kara Puketapu-Dentice Co-chair Louise Askin Te Whanganui-a-Tara Whaitua Committee has elected two "Co-chairs" to reflect the Committee's commitment to taking a partnership approach with Mana Whenua. Co-chair Kara Puketapu-Dentice describes this as…

Flood protection work to go ahead on Waikanae River

  • Published Date 14 May 2019

Greater Wellington Regional Council is to extract gravel and realign the Waikanae River channel next to the El Rancho campsite in Waikanae to manage flood risks in the area caused…

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