Articles by Lisa Benoit, NZ Newswire

Upper South Island

Greymouth beach cleared of plastic bags
Thursday, 8 February 2018, 2:53pm
Hundreds of thousands of plastic bags have been cleaned up from the West Coast after wild weather ripped open a 20-year-old...
National

$"The city council realise the importance of paying their workers a wage that they can live on," Ms Brown said. (Photo \ Getty Images)$

Christchurch adopts the living wage
Thursday, 3 August 2017, 3:39pm
Cheers erupted in the Christchurch Council chambers, as the living wage was adopted on Thursday. A group of supporters of...
National

$Low wage workers like lifeguards, swim instructors and customer service providers will have to wait another week. (Photo \ Getty Images)$

Christchurch living wage vote postponed
Thursday, 27 July 2017, 12:42pm
Low-wage workers will have to wait another week to find out if they'll be paid the living wage. Christchurch City Council's...

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