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Wither Hills Farm Park access could ‘change rapidly’ as temperatures soar
MetService has forecast 33C for Friday, 31C for Saturday, and 30C for Sunday as a westerly flow brings scorching heat across the South Island.
'Outside the box': Swimming excavator dredges river
An amphibious excavator has begun dredging the pop-up garden patch growing out of a river in central Blenheim.
'Most things seem to die': Warning over unchecked spread of invasive worm
An environmental group calling for control of parchment worm in the Marlborough Sounds has criticised the Marlborough District Council for years of inaction.
Tourism business ‘extremely distressed’ by road closures
A Marlborough Sounds tourism operator says restricted access road closures is leaving them cut off from customers at the start of the peak summer season.
The marine species that have 'totally disappeared' from Marlborough Sounds
Of the four ecologically significant species monitored at 16 sites in Queen Charlotte Sound/Tōtaranui, only one remains.
Rates cap puts future infrastructure projects at risk ‒ Marlborough mayor
Local government inflation was 3.3 percent this year, meaning almost all of a 4 percent rates cap would have been used to cover inflation, Nadine Taylor said.
