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Yesterday - 12 Mar

Design contract kick-starts $1b road plan

Need for speed behind CCO appointments

Bypass ready to roll

Budget bust hits free rides for elderly

Commuter fears over packed trains

Water schemes backed

Waitaki stream 'not neglected'

Faster consents may be a mirage

Joyce hails 'exciting' cable plan

Final determination of Auckland Council boundaries

Government rolls $21m into new food laboratory network

Pacific cable 13,000km long proposed for broadband

11 Mar - 06 Mar

Mobile troubles hit Vodafone

Early start at Waterview

Super City CCOs: Good and bad facets to business units

Push to put more waste into river

Quick polls to decide on schemes

Solid Energy opens Taupo wood pellet plant

PPPs pushed as KiwiSaver investment

Wireless microphone concerns for digital switch

Sewage key to drinking water plans

City powerless on its biggest issue

Organisers buzzing over progress on big projects

Floating a raft of recycling ideas

Queenstown biodiesel station opens

Hefty fines for flouting Kaitaia water ban

Dedicated scientists scoop PM's award

Ratepayers being cut out of loop

Cycleways survive despite road-widening plans

Rodney Hide and Steven Joyce: Transparency and efficiency at the heart of CCO plans

Old warrior love of David's life

Cautious backing for productivity commission

Regulation of smart meters ruled out

KiwiRail calls bylaw 'revenue gathering'

Dirty sea water 'not result of outfall tests'

Region's pylon group mulls national body

Stadium down to nuts and bolts

Wellington reverse bungy to be investigated

Six start-ups get quick pitch for $70,000 prize

Metro's tardiness reaches new low

Mathematics students in serious decline

Joyce adamant on city transport giant

A silk purse from a sow's ear

Ear of Mighty River limited to the few

Call for faster action on youth driving

Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy

More cash sought for quake protection

Scheme's backers offer new options

Discoloured river water worries resident

Shape of super city to be revealed

Melbourne's trains: from bad to worse