Kāwhia’s Gaylene Kanawa is about to hit the local body elections’ campaign trail with her colleagues at Waipa, Hamilton and Otorohanga councils to increase voter participation during the election period by offering more special voting…
Local body moves to protect residents from showers of bee poo are being given a tick of approval by Mountain View Honey’s beekeeper Lindy Bennett. Ōtorohanga District Council has included the guidance notes for beepers…
Don’t Burn Waipā spokesman Eoin Fitzpatrick wants a moratorium on waste to energy incineration pending a national analysis. Fitzpatrick made the appeal to the independent Board of Inquiry hearing Global Contracting Solutions application to build…
A video has emerged online of a grey Mazda Axela being chased from Tamahere after an alleged tour-de-mail theft. Keegan Pronger told the Residents of Matangi and Tamahere Facebook page that he had caught mailbox…
The proposal to build a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu is the antithesis of all the district stands for, says Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan. O’Regan appeared before an independent Board of Inquiry in…
Ōtorohanga District Council led the way last week as the first of five councils to decide to hand its drinking and waste water over to a council-controlled water authority. Ōtorohanga councillors voted to join stage…
Waikato-Maniapoto’s Te Taka Keegan says he was surprised at being named a living icon for his work weaving Te Reo Māori into technology. Keegan, a University of Waikato Department of Software Engineering associate professor who…
The chair of the board of inquiry into plans to build a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu asked the applicant why they had not addressed social effects. Environment Court Judge Brian Dwyer asked…
The official welcome for the first of up to 20 adult kōkako to be introduced to Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari was held before they arrived last week. Heavy rain delayed the flight of the kōkako, who…
It was the worst weather Fieldays has had in its 57 years history – but the crowds still came. Ticket sales were up 4000 on last year and 110,000 people, buoyed by high dairy and…
