Christmas message from Monsignor Joe Stack

God’s Blessings and Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to all people of good will. Christmas is the one holiday that so uniquely offers a brief moment of hope that peace and human…

High inflation, soaring interest rates and increased compliance costs are the main drivers behind Waipā District Council needing to collect $13.8 million more in rates revenue in the next financial year. But the budget is…

Dairy farmers, sheep and beef farmers, iwi and other community members are celebrating the second anniversary of a largescale initiative to create an ecological corridor in the Waipā district. The Taiea te Taiao project will…

Andrew Myers has succeeded retiring Waipā ward member Mike Montgomerie on the Fonterra Cooperative Council and shares his thoughts today. For those of you that don’t know me, I live in Roto-o-Rangi between Cambridge and…

Waipā tops Waipā District is the hospitality capital of the Waikato and the third most hospitable district in New Zealand, according to Airbnb. The online accommodation marketplace has released a list of the towns and…

Waipā District Council recently adopted their 2022-23 Annual Report. They said: “Waipā is bracing itself for financial headwinds in the wake of high inflation, soaring interest costs and a need to fund more depreciation.” I…

If you were to look at a thin slice of rock under a microscope, you would see that they look totally different up close. While rocks might mostly look a dull brown or grey, they…

Writing about volcanism in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the term “caldera” pops up frequently. We have a lot of them. For those who have vaguely heard of them, images of “supervolcanoes” and extinction-level eruptions tend to come…

Meghan Hawkes looks back at what was making Waipā headlines in 1913. Local heart throbs, the Te Awamutu polo players, competed in the New Zealand polo tournament at Palmerston North. The Savile Cup challenge was…

Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari. Photo: Hamilton and Waikato Tourism.While volcanoes can produce stressful and scary events, they are a critical part of our planet’s natural processes and they enhance life on Earth in very important ways….