Govt announces aviation relief package
Source: New Zealand Government
Transport Minister Phil Twyford today outlined the first tranche of the $600 million aviation sector relief package announced earlier this week...
Services drive GDP growth – Stats NZ Media and Information Release: Gross domestic product:...
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Services drive GDP growth – Media release
19 March 2020
Gross domestic product (GDP) grew 0.5 percent in the December 2019 quarter, after a 0.8...
Christchurch Northern Corridor opening planned for December 2020
Source: New Zealand Transport Agency
The Christchurch Northern Corridor (CNC) $290 million motorway project between Cranford St and Waimakariri District has moved its opening date...
Police acknowledge IPCA report regarding Napier arrest
Source: New Zealand Police (District News)
NZ Police acknowledges the Independent Police Conduct Authority’s finding that the force used during the arrest of a woman...
Reserve Bank carefully considering proposed AMP Life sale
Source: Reserve Bank of New Zealand
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is aware of media reports and public interest in the sale of the...
Bookable huts: A summer success
Source: Department of Conservation
Mount Somers Track is a very popular 26 km circuit track located in the beautiful Hakatere Conservation Park, Canterbury. Due to...
Tubeworm discovery in Hauraki Gulf cause for celebration
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Scientists mapping the Hauraki Gulf seafloor have discovered huge colonies of tubeworms up to 1.5...
PGF supports Rotorua health and wellbeing services
Source: New Zealand Government
The Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) is investing $17 million in Rotorua’s tourism, health and wellbeing capabilities, Under-Secretary for Regional Economic Development...
Record transport investment in Draft GPS 2021
Source: New Zealand Government
$54 billion to be invested in transport over 10 years.
No petrol excise or road user charge increases proposed.
Record investment in roads,...
Draft Government Policy Statement on land transport 2021
Source: New Zealand Ministry of Transport
Last updated on: 19/03/2020
The Ministry of Transport has released the draft Government Policy Statement on land transport 2021/22 –...
11 simple ways to care for each other during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic
Source: Greenpeace New Zealand
The new coronavirus, COVID-19, has many of us glued to the news, concerned for loved ones, and adapting our lives to...
Global study into Young Lives in Seven Cities comes to Ōtautahi
Source: University of Canterbury
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