News & events

Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025

Our data show nitrate concentrations in groundwater are increasing in much of Waitaha Canterbury. We’re taking action to reverse these trends.

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025

A team searched for īnaka whitebait eggs in streams around Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour. The results were promising and will help protect the at-risk species.

Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025

The last meeting of the triennium focused on our Climate Action Plan, private well testing, and water quality and level reports.

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025

Final Strategy and Policy Committee meeting covered quarry dust, draft Land Strategy, reforms, and air quality review. Read key outcomes.

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025

Upper Waitaki water quality shows mixed results; action underway to reduce nutrients, protect lakes, and guide future land and water decisions.

Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025

Passengers will be able to pay with their debit or credit cards on Metro buses and ferries from November this year.

Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2025

Catch crop trials in Ahuriri unite farmers, scientists & council to reduce nitrogen loss, protect Lake Benmore and boost sustainable farming.

Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025

Waitaha leaders sign MOU, uniting regional and local councils in a shared commitment to Civil Defence Emergency Management collaboration.

Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2025

A new law will have several implications for how we operate, and for the region’s communities, natural environment, resource users, consent holders.

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025

Read about key decisions from the latest council meeting on Wednesday, 27 August 2025.

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025

If you have expired chemicals sitting in your farm shed, now is the time to register them with Agrecovery - ahead of a Canterbury-wide collection in November.

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025

As thousands of wood burners around Canterbury are set to expire, subsidies are available to replace them with new, cleaner forms of heating.