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Scouts make waves

The winter cobwebs have been well and truly blown away. Scout cutters, kayaks and sunbursts took to Lake Rotoroa for the first official boating event…

Money still unpaid

The resource consent application for a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu remains suspended, a month after the applicant told The News its outstanding…

Marae – like village halls

Tamahere residents have been given a different take on why they should support the retention of Waikato District Council’s Māori wards. Ngāruawāhia based Tilly Turner…

O’Regan does it again

Waipā district mayoral candidates were governed by a red squeaky toy at a meeting last Thursday. And for the second time in a row, sitting…

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Gaze passes final day test

Cambridge professional Sam Gaze produced remarkable ride to pass more than 50 riders to 12th place in the elite men’s cross-country on the final day…

Football eyes on Luke

Cambridge footballer Luke Brooke-Smith has become one of the youngest players to debut for the All Whites. Brooke-Smith became All White No. 645 when he…

High five and goals

Twenty-one Waipā teams braved wild weather to take part in WaiBop Football Federation’s junior 5-a-side tournament in Hamilton on Sunday. Despite torrential rain and gale-force…

Cyclones hit a Waikato storm

Community support was clear on Saturday as hometown hero Keelah Bodle and the Waikato Farah Palmer Cup rugby team defeated Manawatū Cyclones at Cambridge Memorial…

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Panic in the headlines

“Tourists warned of volcano (in capital letters) alert in Spanish holiday hotspot as locals urged to leave homes” This was a headline published a few…

Lessons from ‘feathers’…

Oddly enough, feathers of all sizes, colours and shapes often seem to come ‘across my path’ when I’m out and about. Some are ‘ordinary’, but…

Watching the drama

The hustings drama moves on towards what I hope will be a more interesting and voter-filled completion. The candidates have been criss-crossing the district making…

Letters to the editor – 18 September 2025

Another tower view Peter Fulton of the Cambridge Water Tower Group puts forward his group’s case for retention of the water tower. Reading between the…