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Wrenhaven opens the third stage of its light rail: capacity for 400,000 passengers a day
The new 14-station line cuts the trip between the centre and the coastal districts to 22 minutes. Rides are free for the first week.
Lava fountain filmed from a helicopter above a volcanic crater
A column of lava rose from the crater floor, feeding glowing flows beneath a grey plume of gas.
Timelapse shows a river of cloud rolling over the canyon
Low cloud brought by colder weather poured over the red rock walls in slow waves.
Steam column surges skyward from a geyser basin
Water and steam kept bursting from a rocky basin on a volcanic plateau for minutes on end.
Harbourside Promenade to get a protected two-way cycle lane after consultation
The 2.4-kilometre lane will be separated from traffic by a raised kerb and planters, with work beginning in February and the seafront road reduced to one lane each way.
The city under snow: a white silence
When the snow falls the streets slow down; ploughs get to work, bicycles disappear and lights look warmer.
Volunteers plant 1,800 street trees across Wrenhaven in a single weekend
More than 700 residents turned out with spades as part of a scheme to bring shade and greenery to the city's most built-up streets, with each tree adopted by a nearby household.
Weekly food-waste collections to reach 40,000 homes in Eastmoor and Northfield
Households will receive a small kitchen caddy and an outdoor bin, with the waste sent to a digester that turns it into biogas and fertiliser for Asher Valley farms.
Millbrook footbridge over the River Asher reopens after flood repairs
The 80-year-old crossing, closed since floodwater damaged its foundations last winter, is back in use with stronger piers and a wider deck.
Northfield tram extension begins night-time test runs ahead of spring opening
Empty trams are now running through the small hours on the 4.2 km Line 2 extension to Northfield, as engineers check brakes, signals and platform edges before passengers board next spring.
New fire station opens at Bramley Cross, cutting response times in the north of the city
The station, the first new one in Wrenhaven for 25 years, houses two fire engines and a rescue unit and is expected to shave several minutes off emergency calls in the northern suburbs.
Council backs €48m plan to raise and strengthen the Old Quay sea wall
Councillors have approved a three-year programme to lift the Old Quay sea wall by up to 90 centimetres after waves repeatedly spilled over it last winter, flooding cellars and closing the harbour road.
Greyling Bay lifeboat crew rescue four kayakers swept out by offshore wind
Volunteers launched within minutes of the alarm and found the group clinging to two overturned boats about two kilometres from shore.
Tarnmere village post office saved as residents open a community shop
When the village's only shop and post office closed in the spring, neighbours raised €140,000 in shares to reopen it themselves, with volunteers working alongside two paid staff.
Kestrel Park fully reopens after two-year restoration of its lake and woodland
The fences are down at Kestrel Park, where a two-year restoration has cleared decades of silt from the boating lake, added 600 trees and given the city's largest green space a new play area and café.
All nine Wrenhaven beaches pass bathing-water tests for a third year running
Every beach in the city has met national bathing-water standards again, with six rated excellent, after sewer overflow upgrades cut the number of spills into Greyling Bay by more than half.
Asher Valley wheat harvest beats five-year average despite a wet spring
Farmers in the Asher Valley have brought in a wheat crop well above recent averages, figures from the Growers' Cooperative show, after a dry, warm finish to the summer rescued fields that were waterlogged at sowing.