Marlborough

Kāinga Ora is proposing to replace a number of existing homes in Blenheim and purchase new builds from developers over the next two years.

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.

The country's national carrier and the tertiary institution are signing an agreement on Saturday to work together.

It is hoped a plan to protect another 64 "ecologically significant" parts of the Marlborough Sounds will reverse damage.

Kāinga Ora have finished 10, one-bedroom homes in central Blenheim - where there are more than 200 applicants on the wait-list for housing.

The health system faces uncertainty as it undergoes a restructure, one of Marlborough's health bosses concedes, after asking councillors to champion the need for "local stewardship" of health…

A stormwater pond in a new subdivision in Blenheim will not be fenced despite ongoing calls from concerned residents.

The number of people wandering into Te Kahu o Waipuna has more than doubled since its opening.

Following the severe flooding in Marlborough in July 2021 and August 2022, the distribution of landslides across the Marlborough Sounds was mapped and damage assessed.

Vehicles are no longer allowed on most of Marlborough's east coast following the adoption of a bylaw that recognises the "special stretch of coast".

Mayor Nadine Taylor says it is a relatively high rates increase, at a time when households are facing cost-of-living pressures.

A National party candidate says the growing National Gang List is evidence of Labour's 'soft-on-crime approach', but police say it's not that straightforward.

Library and council workers across the top of the South Island are rallying to raise their concerns about low wages, poor working conditions and high turnover.

Overseas recruits have been called in to help fill gaps in a labour shortage which has led to recycling and rubbish being chucked into the same rubbish truck and taken to landfill.

A Te Tauihu iwi member who tried to enter an anti co-governance meeting in Blenheim was stopped at the door, as were other whānau who showed up.

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

Nelson and Tasman will soon have a new public transport service - with more destinations, more regular buses and lower fares - serviced by a fleet of 17 electric buses.

There was little money in the kitty for Marlborough District Council to hand out to community groups this year.

A new art gallery in a "world-class" building in Marlborough can't open full-time because it is the "worst funded public art gallery in our country".