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UPDATE: Regretfully the live-streaming of the National Remembrance Service for the victims of the Christchurch mosques terrorist attack planned for the Carterton Courthouse on Friday 29 March has been cancelled, along with many other public live streaming events...

Carterton District Council is progressing its commitment to the wellbeing of an endangered species of mudfish by continuing to monitor the rehomed population at its Daleton Farm wetlands. Over 900 of the endangered species of brown mudfish were rehomed over December...

Carterton District Council confirmed it will be embracing Te Reo Māori and working with Hurunui o Rangi Marae to implement bilingual signage throughout the district. Te Reo Māori is the indigenous language of New Zealand and is recognised as an official language of...

Restricted Fire Season Due to cooler temperatures and a satisfactory reduction in fire danger, the prohibited fire season (total fire ban) in the Wairarapa district has been revoked. While the fire danger has reduced, there are still some concerns around the...

Councillor Tracey O’Callaghan resigned from her elected member position with Carterton District Council earlier today, with immediate effect. Tracey was elected onto council during the 2016 local body elections and was a member on the Audit and Risk Committee, Policy...

Carterton District councillors are making positive strides towards producing a feasibility study of an 80 plus bed hotel development on Council owned land. Councillors voted yesterday at an extraordinary Council meeting for the council’s Economic Development Advisory...

Due to the lack of rain fall and the current low water levels of the Waingawa & Mangatarere Rivers, water restrictions have been imposed on the use of the Taratahi & Carrington Water Race. As our water allocation has been reduced to the lowest take, we need to...

Water restrictions on the use of the Town Water Supply is now in force due to the lack of rain fall and the current water of rivers and streams. Hand-held hosing use only is permitted. Even numbered properties on even numbered days. Odd numbered properties on odd...

Just letting all our networks know that we are currently experiencing issues with our external email and phone lines, and therefore have little communication with all our community. We apologise if this causing any inconvenience, hopefully we will be up and running...

SH2 Remutaka Hill – overnight closures in March The NZ Transport Agency is giving early notice of a series of full night time closures of State Highway 2 (SH2) over the Remutaka Hill during March to allow for essential maintenance work to be carried out. The five...

Wednesday 23 January 2019 Media Statement:  Mudfish rehomed; wastewater project heads into next phase  Construction of Carterton District Council’s wastewater storage reservoirs are set to get underway following the completion of the recent mudfish translocation. 921...