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Two projects to restore the upper and lower reaches of the Rangitata River have been given a massive boost, with the Government committing $16 million to them.

Farming neighbours count cost: 'Everywhere you looked was water' © RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes Farmers in Mid-Canterbury say it could take months and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up the mess on their farms following last month's massive flooding. It's been an extremely challenging situation for neighbouring farmers Anne-Marie Allen and Chrissie Wright, who say they are still trying to get their heads around the scale of the damage. © Provided by Radio New Zealand Anne-Marie Allen assesses the damage Parts of Anne-Marie and her husband Chris's farm resemble a bombsite. Th...

Parts of Anne-Marie and her husband Chris's farm resemble a bombsite. Their six-hectare water storage pond is destroyed, fences are buried, machinery has been damaged and logs, branches, rocks, gravel and up to a metre of silt have been dumped on the Ashburton Forks property. "There's one pivot that was drowned, so we'll probably change its electric motors and of the two generators that run the pivots, one is written off and we're not sure if the other one can be repaired," she says. Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes "It's hard to quantify how we are going to tackle this problem," she admits.

Labour's Rangitata MP has admitted the timing for the announcement of a new $785 million cycling and walking bridge in Auckland was poor, but is defending the government's Canterbury flooding response.