Waipā District Council has put its representation review proposal out for public consultation. Senior writer Mary Anne Gill reports on what rural voters should consider. When Maungatautari ward councillor Mike Montgomerie voted for the Waipā…
Waipā District Council has put its representation review proposal out for public consultation. Senior writer Mary Anne Gill reports on what rural voters should consider. When Maungatautari ward councillor Mike Montgomerie voted for the Waipā…
Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust has let half of its mountain rangers go as Department of Conservation funding ended. Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain general manager Helen Hughes told The News the trust had lost seven of the…
Former Waikato posties Danny and Ian Kennedy have detailed their damages claim against New Zealand Post. NZ Post cancelled the Kennedys contract to deliver “all mail” in the RD3 Tamahere district in November 2023 after…
They won three and lost three. And given the competition on the northern summer shearing tour, was a good result team New Zealand team manager Mark Barrowcliffe said. The wins came while on the Wools…
Seventeen people from Waipā and King Country, including representatives from police, schools and a youth trust have completed a Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Aotearoa workshop. The two-day training, held in Te Awamutu August…
Roosting pest birds at Lake Rotopiko near Ōhaupō are being given another incentive to move on and take their messy poo with them. Collaborative efforts involving Te Awamutu Rotary Club and the New Zealand Wetlands…
Pixie Stockman walks smiling from a health and wellbeing assessment at Kihikihi’s community hub. She consulted Te Kotahi Oranga Health and Wellness Centre student nurse Natasha To’o during the student-assisted clinic’s first visit to the…
Waitomo Caves choir will host its first open day for this year at the end of the month at the Ōtorohanga Baptist church. And it is hoping to make up the needed balance of voices,…
An active King Country huntaway named Puzzle injured his carpal (wrist) joint at work and had to have a plate put in. But being very engergetic he broke the plate so he was facing either…
Scammers have been active in Waipā and the King Country in recent weeks. Our sister paper the King Country News reported that a Te Kūiti woman was recently conned into providing bank details to a…
