Waikato Regional Council

COROMANDEL — A Coromandel farming couple Doug and Kathy Bentham say their work to protect a 35 hectare patch of native forest, including kauri, is proving immensely satisfying.

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato is seeking community feedback through its 2010/11 Draft Annual Plan on a new way of funding the monitoring of foreshore erosion around Lake Taupo.

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WAIKATO — Waikato-Tainui and Environment Waikato came together around the council’s policy-making table yesterday to start discussions about how to achieve the shared vision of a clean and healthy Waikato River.

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MATAMATA — An Environment Waikato-managed possum control operation over 2,300 hectares near Matamata has achieved excellent results.

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COROMANDEL — Environment Waikato is seeking community feedback on a proposed change to the way stream channel maintenance is funded in Coromandel town and Waiomu.

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WAIKATO — A Waikato Regional Drought Committee has been officially formed at a meeting in Hamilton today to help co-ordinate relief to farmers and others affected by the drought conditions affecting the region.

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HAMILTON — Promoters of the ITM 400 next weekend are again offering free Hamilton bus services to help reduce traffic congestion in the city and minimise the event’s carbon footprint.

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RAGLAN — Coastguard Raglan, with support from Environment Waikato, is again offering to help boaties with information on how to cross the notorious Raglan bar and to be generally safer at sea.

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Environment Waikato chairman Peter Buckley says the regional council will work closely with the Government and other agencies to help support farmers through drought conditions in the region.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato and its partners on the Regional Passenger Transport Committee are working on solutions to overcrowding on the increasingly popular Orbiter bus service in Hamilton.

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WAIKATO — The chairman of the multi-agency Regional Transport Committee is welcoming the final shape of a new regime for heavy vehicles on New Zealand roads due to take effect from next month.

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WAIKATO — Fonterra’s pilot programme to check the effluent management infrastructure on farms in the Waikato is well underway and receiving positive support and feedback from farmers and Environment Waikato, says Fonterra’s GM Milk Supply, Tim Deane.

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WAIKATO — As farmers know well, dairy effluent can be a great resource for nutrients.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato is reporting a big jump in the numbers of people using the free Park and Ride bus service to the Balloons Over Waikato event at Waikato University.

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CANTERBURY — The Chairman of Environment Canterbury, Alec Neill, has said that Environment Canterbury will work constructively with commissioners following today’s government announcement that the council’s elected representatives will be replaced by commissioners from the expected date of May 1, 2010.

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TAURANGA — Environment Bay of Plenty, Environment Waikato, and the Department of Conservation, have released a state of the environment report on the health of the Kaimai and Mamaku Ranges and Waihou and Tauranga Harbour catchments.

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NGARUAWAHIA — The multi-agency Regional Transport Committee says it is very grateful to the Government for helping fund security improvements at the Waikato River rail bridge at Ngaruawahia.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato will grant a total of $120,000 to help create a living museum at the Lake Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park (Horseshoe Lake) in Hamilton.

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WAIKATO — A major milestone in the remediation of one of New Zealand’s most contaminated sites has been reached today with the public notification of applications for consent to clean up the Tui Mine site near Te Aroha.

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WAIKATO — People who took video footage or photos of the Chilean tsunami surge on the Waikato region’s east coast on Sunday 28 February are being asked to share the images with the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group.

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WAIKATO — Regional councils Environment Bay of Plenty and Environment Waikato (EW) have agreed to explore collaborative management of the bulk of New Zealand’s geothermal resources.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato field day designed to help livestock farmers reduce the environmental impact of animals during winter is being held near Te Kuiti on Friday 9 April.

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WAIKATO — The latest snapshot of Waikato dairy farmer compliance with regional council effluent management rules shows the importance of the council working with farmers to improve the situation, says Environment Waikato.

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HAMILTON — Helping disabled people understand how easy it is to use Hamilton buses was the aim of an information day held in the central city yesterday by CCS Disability Action and Environment Waikato, with help from Hamilton City Council.

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WAIKATO — The chairman of the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group says new national statistics on natural disaster preparedness underline the need for more public education in the Waikato region.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato is working with landowners at a new subdivision in north Hamilton to deal with one of the largest infestations of alligator weed the city has seen.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato says it will consider carefully points and questions raised by stakeholders about its new draft report looking at the potential impacts of pine-to-pasture conversions in the Upper Waikato River catchment.

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WAIKATO — The chair of the multi-agency Waikato Regional Transport Committee says the Government’s announcement today of the contract for the Te Rapa section of the Waikato Expressway is great news for the regional economy and road safety.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato, Waipa District Council and the Ngaroto Lake Care Group are joining forces to run a field day for people interested in, or already involved in, improving the environment in their local community.

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WAIKATO — The chairman of the multi-agency Waikato Regional Transport Committee has today strongly welcomed a new ten-year Government Safer Journeys strategy aimed at reducing fatalities and serious injuries on New Zealand roads.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato and Waipa District Council have granted resource consents to a Ngahinapouri dairy farmer to extend an existing sand mining operation and undertake associated earthworks.

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WAIKATO — The Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group has received reports of strong tidal currents at Whitianga and Tairua, but this could be more widespread, especially at harbour entrances.

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WAIKATO — Update as at 3.30am Residents of the Waikato region’s east coast are being urged to stay away from the ocean after a warning that a tsunami is due to hit from about 7am onwards on Sunday 28 February following an earthquake off Chile.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has signed off its draft 2010/11 budgets based on a rates requirement of $68.83 million, an overall increase of 1.86 per cent to existing ratepayers.

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WAIKATO — Fish for the future is the theme of this year’s Seaweek, which will feature a series of free lectures and beach clean-ups in the Waikato.

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WAIKATO — Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Group chairman Peter Lee says he is very encouraged by the commitment shown by senior regional politicians to lifting the performance of Civil Defence in the Waikato.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is looking forward to working with Waikato-Tainui and other iwi to achieve the shared vision of a clean and healthy Waikato River.

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HAMILTON — New research into the echolocation, monitoring and conservation of Hamilton’s long-tailed bat species has earned Darren Le Roux the Environment Waikato and Department of Conservation jointly-sponsored Dr Stella Frances scholarship.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s annual prize in water science has been jointly awarded to Kohji Muraoka and Catherine Sturgeon.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is welcoming the extension of Coastguard’s Nowcasting services to the Raglan and Kawhia harbours.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s finance and audit committee today signalled a rates increase of 1.7 per cent to fund regional council services next financial year.

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HAMILTON — Environment Waikato says the $65,000 fine imposed today on the Crafar company Hillside Ltd is appropriate for the offending involved.

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HAMILTON — Latest figures show significant annual growth in Hamilton bus passenger numbers is continuing even though few new services have come on stream in the past year.

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WAIKATO — The multi-agency Regional Transport Committee says it is encouraging that the Waikato region’s road toll dropped by seven to 67 last year, as driver education, improved roads and firmer policing all helped rein in the number of fatal crashes.

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WAIKATO — Future pine to pasture conversions in the Upper Waikato River catchment between Taupo and Karapiro could generally increase the risk of localised flooding of streams feeding the upper river.

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TAUPO — A pioneering deal involving a farm-to-forestry conversion and the subsequent sale of carbon credits from the forests is being heralded as a major win for the Waikato economy and the environment.

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HAMILTON — More than a dozen tui sightings in Hamilton during January are sparking hopes that the birds may be returning to live and nest in the city as a result of Environment Waikato’s Halo project.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is to encourage the use of a new 'low-sow' method of applying 1080 that cuts the amount of toxin used to control possums.

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HAMILTON — The ‘Plan B4 You Party’ message is clearly getting through to Hamiltonians, with a huge increase in passengers on the Night Rider.

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WAIKATO — An Environment Waikato hearing committee’s decision may save ratepayers millions of dollars while still meeting environmental standards.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is pitching in $400,000 over the next 18 months to help stop health-threatening air pollution in Taupo, Tokoroa and Te Kuiti during winter.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is not expecting any significant environmental impact as a result of a whey spill after a truck and trailer unit left the road and crashed into the Awakino River this morning.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is to assist emergency services in dealing with a diesel and whey spill after a truck crash into the Awakino River, near the south-west corner of the regional council’s area, this morning.

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WAIKATO — Vaughan Payne has been appointed as the new policy and transport group manager at Environment Waikato.

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WAIKATO — Maize farmers John and Margaret Hodge are the first people to be recognised under a new scheme designed to acknowledge people voluntarily doing excellent pest control work in the Waikato region.

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COROMANDEL — A thousand pohutukawa trees are being made available for planting on the Coromandel as part of efforts to get more of the iconic New Zealand trees flowering on the peninsula.

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WAIKATO — Fines totaling $1500 and formal warnings have been issued to Environment Waikato councillor John Fisher over breaches of the council’s effluent management rules on two dairy farms owned by him.

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WAIKATO — Boaties and jetskiers are reminded to stick to the five knot rule when they are out enjoying the Waikato region’s waterways this summer.

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WAIKATO — A Crafar dairying company Hillside Ltd has today pleaded guilty to four charges of unlawfully discharging effluent to land and breach of an abatement notice.

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WHANGAMATA — Environment Waikato said today that the fatal accident at Whangamata on Wednesday evening when a sit-on kayak was swamped and sank was a timely reminder to all users of sit-on kayaks.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is always open to the idea of using pest control methods other than aerially applied 1080 and other toxins, says the council’s biosecurity group manager John Simmons.

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COROMANDEL — Thames-Coromandel District Council (TCDC) has been granted a range of consents to reclaim land so as to protect Thames from coastal flooding, and to help rehabilitate an old landfill site.

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WAIKATO — A hard-hitting road safety campaign across the Waikato this month is targeting people who may drive after drinking alcohol or taking drugs.

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TAUPO — Some media coverage of indicative consent-related charges for Taupo farmers has incorrectly stated that farmers could face annual charges of up to $6000 for monitoring of rules designed to protect Lake Taupo from nutrient leaching.

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TAUPO — A strategy designed to protect Lake Taupo’s foreshore from the effects of erosion and to help manage flood risk around the lake has now been agreed to by both the Taupo District Council (TDC) and the regional council Environment Waikato (EW).

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TAUPO — Environment Waikato is announcing details of the indicative charges farmers will face for new consents in the Lake Taupo catchment.

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Students Against Drink Driving (SADD) and Environment Waikato are teaming up in a new effort to keep Hamiltonians and visitors safe while having a good time this coming holiday season.

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COROMANDEL — Residents of the Coromandel are being urged to be alert for severe thunderstorm warnings, rapidly rising river levels and surface flooding as heavy rain hits the region today and overnight.

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HAMILTON — The Hamilton Halo project, aimed at bringing native birds starting with tui back to Hamilton.

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COROMANDEL — Buses from Ferry Landing to Hot Water Beach and from Hahei to Cathedral Cove are back on the holiday menu this summer after a highly successful shuttle service trial last holiday season.

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MORRINSVILLE — An Environment Waikato hearing committee has granted new resource consents to Matamata-Piako District Council (MPDC), allowing the operation of an upgraded wastewater treatment plant at Morrinsville for another 15 years.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is welcoming significant progress towards having the Crown recognise its obligations to act as a “good neighbour” under regional pest management strategies.

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WAIKATO — A hard hitting road safety campaign targeting drivers who take risks is being launched this week across the Waikato region.

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WAIKATO — The clean up of one of New Zealand’s most contaminated sites, the Tui Mine at Te Aroha, is about to get underway.

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PUKEKOHE — A Pukekohe poultry farm manager has been sentenced to 360 hours community work after pleading guilty to unlawfully discharging chicken effluent to land and breaching an abatement notice requiring him to stop unlawful practices.

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AUCKLAND — Environment Waikato has welcomed the Local Government Commission’s proposal to adjust Auckland’s southern boundary to enable better management of the Waikato River and the Firth of Thames.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has praised AgResearch for the vision and energy involved in the creation of a new model dairy farm at Tokanui, south of Hamilton.

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TAUPO — Many farms around Lake Taupo look as though they will cope comfortably with new Environment Waikato rules aimed at protecting water quality in the iconic lake, a key national tourist attraction.

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WAIKATO — The signing of the Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claim River Settlement Bill is likely to mean Environment Waikato will need to tighten its regulatory processes to protect water quality in the Waikato River, says EW chairman Peter Buckley.

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WAIKATO — The special qualities of Kawhia and Aotea harbours are now a step closer to being preserved, with a number of actions to manage change in these catchments to be implemented.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is strongly encouraging people to have their say over how development occurs in the Future Proof area of Hamilton city and Waipa and Waikato districts.

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WAIKATO — Ideas for new water quality objectives in a working draft on Environment Waikato’s next Regional Policy Statement (RPS) reflect community expectations for the health of the region’s lakes and waterways.

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RAGLAN — Coastguard Raglan, with support from Environment Waikato, is helping to educate boaties on how to cross the notorious Raglan bar and to be generally safer at sea.

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WAIKATO — Tui sightings in and around Hamilton have soared over the past month.

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WAIKATO — By Bala Tikkisetty The post-Winter period is a time when farmers are cultivating their paddocks to ensure they can best provide fresh pasture or the next crop.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has announced it will be taking a firmer line on enforcing boat safety rules this summer, a move which could result in more fines being issued by the region’s harbourmasters.

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WAIKATO — A dairy farmer found guilty of effluent management offences has been ordered to speak of his experiences at a series of dairy effluent field days in a bid to avert offending by others.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s flood management staff will continue to monitor regional river levels closely despite the cancellation of a heavy rain warning for the Waikato.

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HAMILTON — Hamilton bus fares are set to rise 10 to 50 cents from December to help cover funding shortfalls and bring fares more into line with those in other main centres.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato has called a second Waikato Agriculture Summit so that farmer representatives, the agriculture industry and the council can do further joint work on the development of sustainable agriculture in the region.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s flood management staff remain on alert due to a heavy rain warning for parts of the Waikato.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato’s flood management staff are on alert following a heavy rain warning for parts of the Waikato over 30 hours from 2pm Wednesday.

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WAIKATO — By Bala Tikkisetty Managing our soils sustainably is crucial for the Waikato environment and the regional economy.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato is advising people to keep a close eye on river levels across Waikato over the weekend as rain continues to fall on already saturated catchments.

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WAIKATO — Waikato Civil Defence and Emergency Management says the tsunami warning for the region's coasts has been cancelled, following advice from national agencies.

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WAIKATO — Waikato Civil Defence and Emergency Management is urging people living or working on the region’s coasts to be on high alert for tsunami warning information.

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WAIKATO — Environment Waikato will be monitoring river levels across the region as steady rain is forecast to continue all week.

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WAIKATO — Farmers whose operations have been negatively affected by this year’s winter weather are being urged to apply the lessons learned next winter to help protect profits and the environment.

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WAIKATO — Waikato Civil Defence and Emergency Management chairman Peter Lee says regional officials have responded well to today’s tsunami alert.

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WAIKATO — Waikato Civil Defence and Emergency Management says the tsunami warning on the region's east and west coasts has now (11.05am) been cancelled following advice from national agencies.

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