Over the Christmas and New Year period, if your wheelie bins are normally emptied on a Friday, they will be emptied on the Saturday instead as there is no collection on Christmas Day and New Year's Day.

On Tuesday 8 December the Waimakariri District Council (WDC) team held a meeting with residents of Cust to provide an update on processes with the local water supply following November’s E. coli detection.

Waimakariri is now in a restricted fire season, along with the rest of Canterbury following the declaration from Fire and Emergency NZ earlier this week.

Swimmers in Kaiapoi will need to visit Rangiora over January, as the Kaiapoi Aquatic Centre will be closing soon for scheduled maintenance.

The Rangiora-Ashley Community Board discussed plans to make Good Street into a great street at their final meeting of the year last Wednesday.

New direct bus services from Waimakariri to central Christchurch, starting Monday 11 January 2021, will be free for the first two weeks.

The Woodend-Sefton Community Board's last meeting for 2020 finished on a high note with members wholeheartedly supporting a Licence to Occupy for the Pegasus Menz Shed Trust in Gladstone Park.

From Monday members of the public will only be able to access the Rangiora Service Centre from the High Street entrance.