A new movie in te reo Māori about the battle of O-Rākau will be the first in New Zealand cinema history to share the history from a Māori perspective. It will be released during Matariki…
A new movie in te reo Māori about the battle of O-Rākau will be the first in New Zealand cinema history to share the history from a Māori perspective. It will be released during Matariki…
Female motorcyclists from around the central North Island will converge on Te Awamutu tomorrow (Friday) for the funeral of Donna Gaye McCauley. The 51-year-old died last week at Te Poi near Matamata following a crash…
i-Site grants Te Awamutu and Cambridge i-Sites have been given grants of $30,000 each by Waipā District Council in the 2024-2025 financial year to help recover from the loss of the council’s funding. The decision…
Police have named the motorbike rider who died following a crash on Te Poi Road near Matamata on Friday. She was 51-year-old Donna Gaye McCauley from Waipa. Enquiries into the circumstances of the crash are…
Lost war medals turn up in the most unlikely places as historian and freelance journalist Chris Gardner found recently. Dennis Dempsey’s New Zealand Memorial Cross has been found more than 80 years after it was…
Pirongia farmer Kirwyn Ellis is the New Zealand dairy trainee of the year and Ngāhinapōuri’s Logan and Sian Dawson runners up in the share farmer of the year competition. They were presented with their awards…
Sexual exploitation, exposure to objectionable pornographic material and internet-based abuse are the biggest threats to children’s safety online, says a cyber safety expert. John Parsons delivers child protection training around Aotearoa alongside the Police, Oranga…
Regular scheduled trans-Tasman flights could be back on at Hamilton Airport with the first “credible engagement” between international airlines and the airport company in a decade. The introduction of smaller Embraer E190 and Airbus A220…
Attendance records at Waipā District Council’s two swimming pools in Te Awamutu and Cambridge have been smashed in the six months ended December 31. Nearly 193,000 people – up 9.3 per cent from the previous…
Students at Te Awamutu Intermediate have noticed little difference since the coalition government banned cellphones in schools last month. They have been handing their phones in at the start of the school day for ages…
