A council committee tasked with receiving operational reports from the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust met once in the two years before the trust’s current cash flow crisis. Waipā District Council contracts the trust, which operates…
Safe sailing for the next Micah Wilkinson is Ngā Roto Sailing Club’s dream for three new yachts. Cambridge born Wilkinson is a club member – and he brought home a bronze medal form the Olympics…
Waipā posties Danny and Ian Kennedy asked a private investigator to help prove NZ Post had broken their contract to deliver “all mail” in the RD3 Tamahere postal district. The private investigator followed a white…
Trevor Sills should be dead or dying. But his late father saved his life. Losing his father, Bernard, to prostate cancer 20 years ago prompted the Cambridge coffee cart proprietor to have an annual Prostate…
Pixie Stockman walks smiling from a health and wellbeing assessment at Kihikihi’s community hub. She consulted Te Kotahi Oranga Health and Wellness Centre student nurse Natasha To’o during the student-assisted clinic’s first visit to the…
“They’ve got her,” said the celebratory text message. It was sent by community constable Ryan Fleming to CommSafe community safety officer Mandy Merson at the climax of a half hour drama that played out over…
Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust has let half of its mountain rangers go as Department of Conservation funding ended. Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain general manager Helen Hughes told The News the trust had lost seven of the…
Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari ranger Warwick Prewer has joined the at-risk species he’s been protecting for years. Warwick is one of eight rangers whose job it is to protect the many endangered species living within the…
Former Waipā posties Danny and Ian Kennedy are taking a claim for damages against New Zealand Post to the High Court. The couple sold their Te Awamutu home and moved to the South Island in…
Confusion surrounds the Department of Conservation’s promise to partially fund the world’s largest predator proof fence at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, says Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger. A cash flow crisis at the $5000 a day…
