Lou Brown
Te Awamutu councillor Lou Brown is well known as a councillor who shows great respect – and he took it to a new level at a full council meeting this week – referring to Waipa mayor Jim Mylchreest as Your Honour rather than Your Worship on three occasions.
One person has been taken into custody after being car spiked in Leamington this afternoon. At around 12:30pm, police were notified of a person escaping custody and assaulting two Corrections officers outside Waikato Hospital. The…
November 22, 2024 – 4pm Statement from Te Pūkenga clarifying a part of this story: Wintec began engaging with staff on their change proposals from 21 October, this was two weeks before one of several…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan and chief executive Steph O’Sullivan attended the World Business Forum’s two-day conference in Sydney, Australia last week. Organised by World of Business Ideas (WOBI) in major cities across the globe, the…
The rural economy – and potentially its major service towns – is about to get a shot in the arm. The region’s dairy farmers will receive an extra $65 million if Fonterra delivers on its…