10am 5 June 2024 A staff suggestion that Waipā District Council ditch its Age Friendly policy has been thwarted by a former veteran councillor. Kihikihi-based Hazel Barnes successfully argued at today’s Strategic Planning and Policy…
10am 5 June 2024 A staff suggestion that Waipā District Council ditch its Age Friendly policy has been thwarted by a former veteran councillor. Kihikihi-based Hazel Barnes successfully argued at today’s Strategic Planning and Policy…
The latest edition of Waikato Business News is out today, packed full of reading. Chris Gardner visits Hobbiton, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon visits the Ruakaka Superhub, Viv Posselt visits Esther Gathambo at the Made precinct…
Ngutunui Enviro School students have held their first-ever planting day at a nearby farm in Pirongia as part of the Trees for Survival initiative. The 29 students planted 725 natives on low-lying fields near a…
Waipā could reduce from 11 to eight the number of elected councillors sitting around the debating table. The move, subject to public feedback is understood to have gathered momentum under mayor Susan O’Regan in a…
Te Awamutu’s Kaipaka pā site could soon be commemorated by a small recreation park at the end of Christie Avenue. Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board is seeking support from landowners and mana whenua. Community…
Alan Empson QSM has been celebrated as a skilled leader, a man of faith, a pioneering farmer and a treasured family man. St John’s Church in Te Awamutu was where he was farewelled last Friday…
Waipā supermarkets should be banned from selling alcohol, according to Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board member Jill Taylor. Taylor was responding to a proposal during a Local Alcohol Policy workshop last week to either…
Richard Paul Mills might have died at home alone and unclaimed by family, but there was no way the Returned and Services Association (RSA) was going to let him go that way. So, the call…
When it came to local body matters, he was a gamekeeper turned poacher. James Parlane, who died in a two-vehicle crash near Ōhaupō last Friday, was a former lawyer and Waipa District councillor who frequently…
Five die in crash Five people have died following a head-on crash on State Highway 3/Ōhaupō Road last night. Emergency services were called to the scene just before 4:45pm. Police say three occupants of one…
