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Vehicle weight and length restrictions on Kenepuru Road to the Heads have increased for residents’ vehicles. The new limits will mean residents’ vehicles up to 12.6m in length, and six tonnes in weight will be able to travel on Kenepuru Road and the ...

Council’s Assets & Services Committee has approved the establishment of a holding account to fund critical storm repairs within the Marlborough Sounds Future Access Study Area (MSFAS). <img src='https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2308/ff52f2fd5292aaf1f55e.jpeg' ...

Urgent road repairs are needed in the Marlborough Sounds to ensure safety, while the council waits for a study to determine the future of the region's damaged road network.

Almost two years after storms first caused widespread damage to the Marlborough Sounds, the council has released its preferred transport options.

The Marlborough District Council has asked Waka Kotahi for $52.4 million to complete repairs to the region's roads after a severe flooding event in August last year.

Setting aside the fact that our founding fathers were largely OK with owning humans and barring women from voting, the United States was founded on some pretty reasonable if not radical ideals. Civic life in this country is predicated on the concept that we don’t have to agree on everything to live together

Some flood-damaged Marlborough Sounds roads might never be "put back", a roading boss has conceded.

Democrats hope population growth and Republican infighting in the state’s third-most-populous county will help them turn Tarrant County purple.