A second controversial decision made by a Waipā District Council independent commissioner in favour of several hectares of kiwifruit shelter belts in Parallel Road is to be appealed. Alan Withy last week granted two applications…
A second controversial decision made by a Waipā District Council independent commissioner in favour of several hectares of kiwifruit shelter belts in Parallel Road is to be appealed. Alan Withy last week granted two applications…
Shakespeare comes to Te Awamutu on Friday. Te Awamutu College will host the Waikato Regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival – and it will be the first opportunity students have had to gather face to face…
Waipā’s spatial plan engagement programme has become a victim of its own success and the team behind it is under pressure to provide individual presentations before feedback closes in 11 days. Strategy manager Kirsty Downey…
From better public transport services to improved biodiversity, hundreds of Waipā residents have shared their views on what is most important to them for the future of the district. Waipā District Council has received more…
Thirty women took the opportunity to hear from 10 successful female authors by enjoying a girls’ night in the Cambridge Library on Friday in celebration of International Women’s Day and Authors Month. The Waikato authors…
Waipā District Council has joined a nation-wide library movement and is proposing to remove library fines. The proposal is outlined in a revised schedule of council’s fees and charges for 2023/24, to go out for…
Alpha plan gets an A 9 March 2023 – The News’ exclusive last week revealing plans to reopen Kihikihi’s Alpha pub as a community centre has the district buzzing. It had reached closed to 9000…
Sam Dodd was one of the major winners in the Waikato Dairy Industry awards last week. The farm manager for Belinda Wilson on her 252ha Te Awamutu farm milks 800 cows. He was named Dairy…
A Pirongia dairy farmer has been crowned the Waikato Bay of Plenty young farmer of the year – and Trav Miers and Caleb Van Der Bijl from St Peter’s Cambridge are the region’s junior young…
Sunday’s official opening of an alternative museum space in Te Awamutu was a triumph in terms of community reconnection. What is being called the Te Awamutu Museum Education and Research Centre opened at 55 Rickit…
