Steampunkers and visitors enjoyed a day of dress-up, ‘mad hatter’ teas and Victorian-styled competitions at Sunday’s third Steampunk Community Fun Day at the Cambridge Town Hall. The event, organised by the InterlockNZ Trust and Waipā…
Steampunkers and visitors enjoyed a day of dress-up, ‘mad hatter’ teas and Victorian-styled competitions at Sunday’s third Steampunk Community Fun Day at the Cambridge Town Hall. The event, organised by the InterlockNZ Trust and Waipā…
Groundbreaking equine reproduction – or horse breeding – research at Equibreed NZ is helping keep work undertaken by Kiwi industry specialists “right up there” on the world stage. And, director Dr Lee Morris says nearly…
“I’ve been farming for nearly 30 years and can’t remember a season that’s been so wet for so long, particularly over summer.” Amongst at times “astronomical rainfall and the tough challenges” that’s brought with it,…
There’s a silver lining from Brylee Gibbes’ time at the 2023 World Hip Hop Dance Championships. The 18-year-old Te Awamutu hip hop dancer – Waikato and Waipā’s sole representative at the event in Phoenix, Arizona…
“Today, as we release the first waiata from the album, it represents the first fruits of the project. There’s a sound coming from our people, our iwi, and from our land. “It is a flourishing…
Waipā council staff say they’ve been assured by health officials that fluoridation of council’s water supplies is safe. There would therefore be no grounds to action two notices of motion from the Te Awamutu and…
A Waipā farming leader says the hit dairy farmers are taking because of a reduced milk payout will hurt communities like Te Awamutu and Cambridge hard. Ōhaupō dairy farmer Andrew Reymer says incomes down on…
Te Awamutu and Kihikihi Community Board chair Ange Holt has taken the case for finding a ‘holme’ for a community space a step further. Waipā District Council’s Finance and Corporate committee today considered a recommendation…
Waipā District Council will not join legal action seeking a review of a government directive around fluoride. In July 2022, Council was directed by the Ministry of Health to add fluoride to the Cambridge water…
Welcome to Waipā: Home of the Sceptics, for we are champions no more. That’s been confirmed in the latest annual Waipā residents’ survey with 54 per cent of the respondents described as sceptics and a…
