An empty building in Te Awamutu may cost $3 million to bring up to earthquake standard. Council staff were evacuated from the Roche Street building in October and last month moved into a leased building…
An empty building in Te Awamutu may cost $3 million to bring up to earthquake standard. Council staff were evacuated from the Roche Street building in October and last month moved into a leased building…
Waipā felt enough of Cyclone Gabrielle’s force to leave it without power in many places – and a huge mess to clean up. A National State of Emergency was declared on Tuesday – just the…
13 February 2023 – Waipa media release Council’s biggest ever roadshow involving 11 towns and villages and at least 22 events rolls out this week. The six-week long engagement will see council seek comment on…
It’s from the believe or not files – an Anko saucepan from Kmart won the race to be the Consumer Institute’s Top of the Pots. Consumer delivered the news last week, leaving owners of the…
Housing is such a significant issue for Waipā that the newly-elected council has escalated its importance by establishing a new housing sub-committee. The decision was made at this week’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee and…
We Say This is the new view from on high of rural Waipā. These shade covers block views at ground level – and for that reason residents across the district are up in arms as…
“Education has always been a core purpose,” Jim Mylchreest says of Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain. So it was fitting that at the opening of the $846,000 Manu Korokii Education Centre on the maunga last week the…
A Waipā student is using spare time ahead of her Wintec classes resuming by helping collect donations for victims of the Auckland floods. Charlotte Peake and her sister Mikaela are collecting items daily to deliver…
About 100 supporters, sponsors and iwi marked the opening of Sanctuary Mountain’s new education centre this morning. Manu Korokii Education Centre has been 20 years in the making and opens a new chapter in teaching…
Most objects in Te Awamutu Museum’s collection are safe in climate-controlled storage following the sudden decision to evacuate the museum’s Roche Street building three months ago. Uenuku, a taonga of Tainui and the most valuable…
