Rural Sector highlights health and community safety issues
Retaining vital health services and increasing community safety are the biggest health and safety issues facing rural New Zealand, according to the councils that attended a Rural Health and Community Safety Forum in Wellington yesterday.
Select Committee support for local decision-making and enhanced local processes welcomed
Local Government New Zealand says the Select Committee Report on the Resource Management and Electricity Legislation Amendment Bill has addressed a number of concerns highlighted in its submission.
Empower our communities, political parties told
"Work with us to empower our communities" is the message Local Government New Zealand's President Basil Morrison has given to New Zealand's political parties in its local government manifesto, released in Wellington today.
