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The breadth and depth of rural life was on full display at the second day of the Great Yorkshire Show, with the finest examples of cheese, pigeons and goats taking centre stage for their own championships.

A sewage leak in southern Ontario highlights the toxic relationship between cities and water

It was unveiled Monday north of the chapel on the east side of the ravine. Monument project volunteer Aly Boltman says the historically overlooked Potter’s Field, also known as the Indigent Lot, came into use in 1858 and was a burial ground for more than 130 years for babies, orphans, seniors, Indigenous people, the working poor, the incarcerated and the homeless are buried there. Boltman says many from Owen Sound’s historic Black community, including those who escaped on the Underground Ra...

This had garnered 101 responses, noted senior policy advisor Sue Mavor. Councillors were quick to point out that this feedback, and earlier opinions from iwi and Maori organisations had been carefully considered. Kevin Taylor, absent from the November meeting, acknowledged submissions both for and against. He had read them all, he said, along with a legal opinion on council decision-making “and for the record I am in favour of the resolution.” CHRIS MARSHALL/Stuff The Taupō District ...

Wiki Samuel was about to celebrate the national day until a councillor knocked on his door with a petition likely to limit Māori representation.

WIKI SAMUEL/FACEBOOK Wiki Samuel talks about his reaction to an unprompted door knock on Waitangi Day from a councillor gathering signatures for a petition supporting a poll on Māori wards. As Wiki Samuel prepared to mark Waitangi Day’s message of partnership and national celebration, the opposite arrived at his door with a knock. On his doorstep was Taupō District councillor John Boddy, seeking his signature on a petition calling for a referendum on Māori wards in the district – one th...

In-house fighting costs ratepayers thousands of dollars in investigations 11 Jan, 2021 01:10 AM 6 minutes to read Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins said the code of conduct was the only tool available to them to investigate bad behaviour by elected members. Photo / ODT Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins said the code of conduct was the only tool available to them to investigate bad behaviour by elected members. Photo / ODT Herald reporter based in HamiltonNikki.Preston@nzme.co.nz In-house fighting, naughty ...

CHRIS MARSHALL/Stuff An area north of the Poihipi Road intersection with Wairakei Drive would contain a mix of medium density and general residential sections. A residential subdivision that could see 780 sections created on Taupō’s northern outskirts has vaulted a first planning hurdle with the Taupō District Council – but not without some signalling of likely public concern. While the foreseeable worries of some residents to Taupō’s north and west about traffic congestion were signa...