Staged development of a proposed $16 million multi-events centre at Whangarei’s Okara Park will begin within days – with a new pitch, refurbished north stand and embankments expected to be ready by mid-August.
Unimpressed officials have served an overseas boatie with a $750 infringement notice after an angry local photographed him emptying human waste into the Opua Basin from his yacht.
A new seawall should be able to be built in a One Tree Point area which has already seen a public safety issue caused by cliff subsidence, a Northland Regional Council Committee says.
The plant which treats Opononi and Omapere’s wastewater has been granted resource consent for the next decade.