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Matapouri Beach.

4.50pm: Tsunami warning cancelled, but caution still advised

Posted: 30 September 2009

Civil Defence officials say Northlanders should continue to be wary of possible issues from higher than usual waves generated by today’s large Samoan earthquake.

Matapouri beach.

12.15pm: Update Tsunami passes, warning downgraded

Posted: 30 September 2009

A barely detectable tsunami wave has been recorded in Northland after today’s large earthquake off Samoa but appears to have had little or no local impact.

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9.45am: Update - Tsunami expected in Northland

Posted: 30 September 2009

Northlanders in low-lying east coast areas are being warned to adopt a precautionary approach and stay off beaches as a tsunami with a possible estimated height of up to one metre reportedly heads towards New Zealand.

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9.32am: Tsunami warning for Northland

Posted: 30 September 2009

Northlanders in low-lying east coast areas are being warned to adopt a precautionary approach and stay off beaches as a tsunami of as-yet unknown height reportedly heads towards New Zealand.

Passiflora apetala.

Mystery Whāngārei plant identified

Posted: 28 September 2009

A United States-based expert has identified a mystery plant growing in forest near Whāngārei as a passion flower native to Costa Rica and Panama.

Mangawhai moorings.

Draft Mangawhai Mooring Management Plan released

Posted: 25 September 2009

Mooring owners and local residents are being invited to have their say on a draft local authority mooring management plan tailor-made for the Mangawhai Harbour.

Whangarei CBD flooding.

Nominations sought for Whāngārei flood group

Posted: 24 September 2009

Members of the public are being invited to nominate several potential members of a new local authority committee that will work to reduce the risks flooding poses to urban Whāngārei, including its low-lying Central Business District.

Councillor Bill Rossiter with Kerikeri High School student David Blucher.

Biological gorse control research wins NRC award

Posted: 14 September 2009

A 17-year-old Kerikeri High School student’s study on the biological control of gorse has earned him this year’s Northland Regional Council ‘Excellence Award’ at the Top Energy Far North Science and Technology Fair.

Northland Port Corporation logo.

NRC nominates three new Port Corp Directors

Posted: 11 September 2009

Majority shareholder the Northland Regional Council wants to see a more professionally focussed Northland Port Corporation board – and fewer local government faces at the board table.

Northland.

NRC to give away aerial, geographic data

Posted: 11 September 2009

Northlanders are to be granted access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of aerial photography and other local authority geographic information system (GIS) data.

NRC Water St sign.

Super City boundary change ‘workable’ for NRC

Posted: 10 September 2009

Initial investigations show a Government proposal that would expand the Northland region’s boundary as far south as Waiwera is workable from the Northland Regional Council’s perspective, its Chairman says.

mystery Passiflora in Whangarei.

Investigation into mystery Whāngārei plant

Posted: 07 September 2009

Local authority biosecurity staff are hoping an overseas expert will be able to shed some light on the identity of a mysterious plant discovered growing wild in publically-owned forest in Whāngārei.

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