Greenpeace is sounding alarms over Ashburton’s water, claiming nitrate levels in some supplies pose a dangerous threat to ...

Ashburton’s mayor is looking at potential fixes for Lake Hood’s toxic algae problem, but the council has been warned there’s “no magic wand or silver bullet”. The Ashburton District Council closed the ...

It was over in a flash, or should that be flush. Ashburton councillors voted not to build new toilets in the Ashburton Cemetery, without a single word of debate on Wednesday [APRIL 16]. The vote was ...

Greenpeace is sounding alarms over Ashburton’s water, claiming nitrate levels in some supplies pose a dangerous threat to ...

There is a growing body of evidence that indicates that longer-term exposure to drinking water above 0.87 mg/L can increase the risk of bowel cancer. Greenpeace tested 27 samples from the Ashburton ...

How to help stop golden mussels from entering Whiskeytown Lake and other North State waters What damage mussel colonies - as many as 200,000 strong - could do to city infrastructure and recreation ...

Council chief executive Hamish Riach has defended the decision to close Lake Hood. The Ashburton District Council closed Lake Hood to the public on April 3 because of the risk to public health ...

Ashburton Park has been awarded a £1.5 million grant to upgrade the park ahead of its 100th anniversary. The £1,593,762 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund will be used to improve the ...

Ellery “Ellie” Curtis, 26, a former alpine skier at Dartmouth College, suffered a head injury and was pronounced dead at the ski resort, located in the Greater Lake Tahoe area, the Placer ...

But that decent snowpack, after melting, hasn’t filled reservoirs like Lake Mead and Lake Powell as much as water users across the West might like, due to years of drought and overuse.

The Placer County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that 26-year-old Ellery ‘Ellie’ Curtis died from a head injury at the Palisades Tahoe resort in Olympic Valley. Curtis was a Dartmouth ...