Marlborough

Climate change is "so important" in Marlborough that it has been bumped up the list on the contents page in the region's new environment plan - a "blueprint" for sustainability.

A quarry company wants its road levies to be spent on roads leading to and from its Marlborough quarry, rather than some of the funding going on other roads in the district.

A telecommunication giant that used "grossly misleading flattery" in a bid to secure a broadband contract with a council has won back court costs.

A large scrubfire in Marlborough has been contained.

Policing environmental compliance at salmon farms could become cheaper and faster thanks to a new test using bacterial DNA.

Mining nearly twice as much rubble from a Marlborough quarry would be a safety risk, generate unbearable noise and "severely deteriorate" lifestyles, residents say.

Hammers and drills will be the background track for decision-makers for the next three months while their sagging "beehive" roof is replaced.

Several rivers in Marlborough are days away from being "shut off" from irrigators, worrying grape growers and farmers who just got through the region's second driest month in 90 years.

Firefighting foam contamination in Marlborough exceeds health guidelines for drinking water across an area of 200 hectares.

Money set aside for infrastructure projects in Marlborough is not being spent as the council struggles with a shortage of "council staffing, professional services and contractors".

A former teacher who was jailed after being convicted for repeatedly driving two teenage boys to parks at lunchtimes for sex can now be named.

Kerbside collection will be considered for the rural Marlborough town this year, after a spate of illegal dumping forced its recycling container to close.

An advocate for Marlborough's silver-haired population has voiced support for three new extensions to Blenheim's bus service.

A crayfishing company has reignited an "emotional" battle to get its boats back in the water on Marlborough's east coast after the 2016 earthquake.

Picton's port was evacuated and ferries delayed while emergency services responded to a volatile gas leak from a rail wagon tank unit.

A recently widowed Marlborough dairy farmer says a logging operation that has sprung up on a neighbouring property is likely to destroy her farm.

The organiser of a petition against a proposed quad bike ban in Marlborough has been "given hope" after meeting with a top council boss.

A conservationist is concerned a third of submissions about an open-ocean salmon farm managed to "disappear" from a council website.

When the Marfells gifted their family beach to the government, they were hoping the public would get the same fun riding their "horse and cart" on the sand as they had. Video

Going paperless, getting fit and giving less time to "perpetually offended grievance hunters" are on this year's to-do list for Marlborough councillors.