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…
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…
Volcanologist Dr Janine Krippner has made an explosive discovery. Century old views of Mount Ngāuruhoe on the Central Plateau in eruption held by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington are a smouldering sham. Krippner, a…
Restoration of the stained glass windows at St Paul’s Church in Rangiaowhia are among six projects to get funding from Waipā District Council’s Heritage Fund. The $20,000 is $40,000 shy of what is needed to…
It took around 700 bread rolls and sausages, bucketloads of goodwill and who knows how much in the way of sauce to make New Zealand’s longest hotdog in Te Awamutu on Monday. The mammoth effort…
An appeal not to gut their discretionary grant allocation will be part of the Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board’s submission on Waipā District Council’s long term plan. Member Jill Taylor warned at the board’s latest meeting…
