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…
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…
Waipā has been allocated an extra $10,000 to invest in projects and ideas that rethink, reduce and reuse waste across the district. The money comes from the Ministry for the Environment but is administered by…
Sarah Ulmer is one of our greatest cyclists, the first New Zealander to win an Olympic cycling gold medal. The only medal I’ve won of any note is a gold for winning the Northland junior…
Waipā’s average rate increase will go up six per cent, but residential and commercial ratepayers will find themselves paying way more than that because the value of their properties are about to increase significantly. It…
An 18-year-old with ties to Waipā history will go on a year-old mentoring journey with mayor Susan O’Regan. Maude Rewha was schooled at Pekapekakarau Primary, Te Awamutu Intermediate and Te Awamutu College. Her application for…
The flagpole which overlooks Te Awamutu’s Anzac Green will be back in place soon – but the restoration work on it has done nothing to explain its story. Menzshed, the RSA, Waipā District Council and…
When Janine Krippner saw the stone axe sitting on her parents’ bookshelf alongside some family photos at their Paterangi farm next to Lake Mangakaware, she immediately knew it didn’t belong there. Eight years in the…
