Council News
Pull on your skates and grab your board, Ashburton is set to host its very own skate jam event on Sunday 9 May with special guests, Cheapskates Skate Skool.
Rakaia residents will be required to restrict their water use for around eight hours on Monday 19 April and will be on a boil water notice for several days as the Council begins upgrading the town's drinking water service
EA Networks Centre is scheduled to host two exciting events in its state-of-the-art facility this weekend (10-11 April), meaning partial closure of facility amenities to regular visitors.
Last night, an online ‘community meeting’ was held where Ashburton District Mayor Neil Brown and Council Officers explained the details of the proposed draft plan.
Recent progress on the Ashburton CBD upgrades have focused on the East/Burnett Street railway crossing where the chessboard used to be, and now artist renderings show what the end result could look like.
Close to 800 metres of a rural road east of Hinds is the site of reconstruction work for the next four weeks, as the Council's contractor, HEB Construction cracks on with maintaining the district's roads.
Canterbury DHB’s Community and Public Health unit has issued a health warning for Hakatere/Ashburton River at State Highway 1.
The Ashburton Domain paddling pool has now been closed (early) for the season while maintenance work is undertaken to repair damaged seals discovered after recent drainage of the pool.
People keen to test their endurance climbing 1,103 steps for a worthy cause are being invited to enter themselves or their team into the EA Networks Centre's Firefighter Sky Tower Challenge.
Over the course of 2020, a $7 million wastewater pipeline and pump station was built in Ashburton to future-proof the infrastructure for future generations, and this week, the organisations involved in delivering the project gathered to discuss a job well done.