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Whanganui port project moves to phase 2 with inter island ferry proposal excluded from plans 19 May, 2021 05:00 PM 3 minutes to read Whanganuis port is heading into a new phase in its revitalisation. Photo / Whanganui District Council Whanganuis port is heading into a new phase in its revitalisation. Photo / Whanganui District Council Whanganui Chronicle Plans for Te Pūwaha - the project to revitalise Whanganuis port - do not include an inter island ferry, Te Pūwaha chairman Gerrard Albert sa...

Renovations at 26 marae in Whanganui and Taranaki are expected to create hundreds of jobs in the regions.

$6m economic recovery project under way at Whanganui and South Taranaki marae 12 May, 2021 08:58 PM 4 minutes to read Puawai Moore and her daughter Michelle Ryan at Mākaranui Marae between Raetihi and Ohakune, on land set aside by her grandfather for the people of Ngāti Tamakana. Photo / Moana Ellis Puawai Moore and her daughter Michelle Ryan at Mākaranui Marae between Raetihi and Ohakune, on land set aside by her grandfather for the people of Ngāti Tamakana. Photo / Moana Ellis Moana is a ...

The project marks a £5.7m collaboration between the MOD, Dorset Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Dorset Council. Dorset boasts a particularly strong defence sector and is home to many MOD establishments, such as the Army’s Armoured Trial and Development Unit in Bovington, the Royal Corps of Signals training centre in Blandford and the training area at Lulworth Cove, which is used by all elements of the UK’s Armed Forces. Brigadier Matt Cansdale, British Army, Head Future Force ...

Leading small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX), today announced the company was selected to provide a pair of 6U CubeSat buses and an Engineering Development Unit for the Virtual Super-resolution Optics with Reconfigurable Swarms, or VISORS, program, a space mission sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Renovations at 26 marae are expected to create hundreds of jobs in the region.

It took fast-growing Amazon quite a while to open its first Mesa distribution center, with the online giant finally opening a facility near Falcon Field near the end of 2019. It must be going well, as Amazon is already lining up its second Mesa operation — this one on the north end of Eastmark, close to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Two and a half months ago, plans for “Project Javelina” were submitted to the city. Though the company likely to operate there is mostly veiled in th...

Logan Savory14:07, May 10 2021 Dianne Manson/Getty Images Money is to be allocated in Budget 2021 to come up with a just transition plan for Southland for when the Tiwai Point Aluminum Smelter closes. The Government will include a funding package in its 2021 budget which will help with developing Southland’s economic transition plan. Associate Minister of Finance Megan Woods confirmed Budget 2021, to be announced next week, will include investment into Southland’s just transition plan in p...

TRAVELLERS have been moved on from a Weymouth park. Officers from Weymouth and Portland Polices Neighbourhood Policing Team evicted people living in an unauthorised traveller encampment near Monmouth Avenue yesterday afternoon. The eviction was supported by members of the polices Force Support Group, the Professional Development Unit, the Dorset Police Dog Section and the County Lines team. A spokesman for Weymouth & Portland Neighbourhood Policing Team said: "We have successfully evict...

“Emergency works were undertaken to retain ongoing and future flood flows within the main channel,” Griffiths said. “Current works to address the immediate flood risk to the community include extension of the emergency embankments and construction of stopbanks and gravel groynes at the three breakout locations, and strengthening of existing rock stub groynes and construction of additional groynes adjacent to the Rangitata South Irrigation Ltd ponds.” Supplied The December 2019 Rangit...