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Flooding will cause greater damage to road networks in future. Pictured is the Tyntesfield bridge, in Marlborough’s Waihopai Valley, destroyed this week by a flooded river.Gavin Hadfield Canterbury could face New Zealand’s biggest annual flood-damage bill for infrastructure by 2075, with power, water and road networks carrying most of the projected cost.

Kāinga Ora is selling properties on Eliot and Lemon streets they bought for more than $3m three years ago.VANESSA LAURIE / TARANAKI DAILY NEWS A multimillion-dollar plot of land in central New Plymouth is back on the market after the Government abandoned plans to build social housing on the site. Kāinga Ora confirmed it was selling three neighbouring inner city properties, 86 Lemon St and 70-74 Eliot St, bought for $3,175,250 in 2023.

French atmospheric nuclear testing in the South Pacific was a long standing source of annoyance to the New Zealand Government. Photo: Supplied ANALYSIS: The ripple effects of a Chinese ballistic missile splashing into waters near Tuvalu on Monday are being felt across the globe, with serious implications for the nuclear-free Pacific. Pacific nations - including New Zealand - have for decades fought to ban nuclear weapons and testing from their vast and mostly unpopulated waters.

Finance Minister Nicola Willis has plenty on her mind.SAM SCANNELL / Taranaki Daily News ANALYSIS: Time to take their foot off the gas. That was the way Nicola Willis described the first rate rise from the Reserve Bank in three years on Wednesday afternoon, as Anna Breman and co “essentially easing their foot a little bit off the accelerator that has been in place in the New Zealand economy in recent months”.

All primary and intermediate schools in Levin could soon have enrolment schemes in place. (File photo)Adele Rycroft / Manawatū Standard The Ministry of Education is proposing to bring in enrolment zones for primary and intermediate schools in Levin to manage growing rolls in the Horowhenua town. Zones were introduced at Levin’s two colleges last year and now the ministry was reviewing enrolment schemes for primary schools in the Horowhenua town.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosts his Kiwi counterpart, Christopher Luxon, last year. New Zealand will in turn host Modi this week to mark the signing of a free trade agreement which a reader argues is about prosperity, not migration. Prosperity the real goal Recent public discourse regarding the New Zealand-India free trade agreement has often conflated essential trade negotiations with immigration policy.

Another winter storm batters Wellington’s coast, as spray sweeps across State Highway 1.NZTA The authors work in communications and media studies; Drs Teresa Heinz Housel and Catherine Strong are affiliated with Massey University, while Dr Lukasz Swiatek is affiliated with the University of New South Wales. OPINION: Are you a flight, fight or freeze person? In an impending emergency such as a natural disaster, do you run for safety, or simply freeze in place chanting “she’ll be right”?

The Government’s energy conservation authority says a $3.8 million campaign to educate Kiwis on fuel use is estimated to have delivered more than $21m in savings. In response to high fuel prices due to the Iran conflict it was announced in March that the Energy Efficiency Conservation Authority (EECA) would release an ad campaign to give New Zealanders advice on how to save fuel.

The conversion of a Milson Line butchery and takeaway into a bottle store is in doubt, with its liquor licence denied.Adele Rycroft / MANAWATŪ STANDARD Operators of a proposed new Bottle-O liquor store at Palmerston North’s Milson shopping centre have been denied an alcohol licence after overwhelming opposition from the community and reporting agencies.

More from The Post The crucial calculation that could kill Wellington tunnels plan NZTA says the benefit-to-cost ratio, with provisos, is all important. By that measure, Wellington’s key project ranks last. “Claims made by the councillor about a senior officer's actions are completely false, unwarranted and have unfairly dragged the officer’s integrity into question,” Wellington District Commander Superintendent Penelope Gifford said.