Greater Wellington confirmed that its 2020/21 regional rates increase would be cut from the long term plan proposed average of 6.3% to 3% at a Council meeting around its annual…
The Friends of Baring Head is calling on sustainably-minded locals to help to plant 6000 native plants to restore the East Harbour Regional Park. Managed by Greater Wellington, Baring Head/Orua Pouanui…
Names have been drawn and winners have been announced for Greater Wellington Regional Council's month-long initiative that encouraged students to walk, cycle and scoot to school. Across the Wellington Region 129…
Greater Wellington Regional Council's Biosecurity team has announced a 10-year-programme to prevent the invasion of three of New Zealand's least desirable pest plants. The Surveillance Programme is one of Greater Wellington's…
The inaugural meeting of Greater Wellington's climate committee, delayed by COVID-19, will focus on how regional government can help lead the response to our fast-changing climate, the greatest challenge facing…
Greater Wellington Chair Daran Ponter and Councillor Prue Lamason say Hutt City Council's short sighted decision to block RiverLink from being submitted as one of the Government's fast track infrastructure…
The Government is fast tracking two Wellington infrastructure projects to help stimulate the region's economy post COVID-19. Eleven infrastructure projects will largely bypass the Resource Management Act (RMA) and be referred…
Greater Wellington Regional Council agreed to reduce its 2020/21 regional rates increase from an average of 6.3% to 3% during discussions around its draft annual plan today. The decision was made…
Greater Wellington Regional Council and Wellington City Council joined forces to carry out a four-year monitoring programme of the city's streams. Greater Wellington Senior Environmental Scientist Dr Evan Harrison says there…
A just-released report from infrastructure consulting firm AECOM commissioned by the region's nine councils shows that the Wellington Region's gross greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5 per cent between 2001…