Taupō District Council will benefit from shared services even if it does not hand its drinking and waste water infrastructure over to the Waikato Water Done Well council-controlled water organisation. The council prefers retaining control…
Waikato Federated Farmers is poring through the Environment Court’s 376-page interim decision on Waikato Regional Council’s Plan Change One. “Our team are now working through the detail to understand what additional requirements, if any, might…
Cambridge based scout Tristan Wang spent the weekend serving others. The 14-year-old Cambridge High School pupil and senior team leader at Kirikiriroa & St Peter’s Scout Group worked alongside adult scout kaiarahi, or leaders, to…
Counter claims of vandalism have further soured relations between Waipā District Council and one of its community boards and an independent park maintenance committee. The committee ignored council plans to replace wooden benches dating back…
Prime minister Christopher Luxon has met New Zealand National Fieldays Society chief executive Richard Lindroos to discuss growing the event. “It’s a fantastic event, I want it to get bigger and bigger,” Luxon said before…
The first of up to 20 adult kōkako from the Hunua Ranges will be released on Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari today. Chief executive Helen Hughes said the birds would assist the mountain’s kōkako breeding programme. Speaking…
Until recently Waikato Federated Farmers met at the organisation’s Hamilton office. As senior writer Chris Gardner finds, they need somewhere else now. Waikato Federated Farmers new president Phil Sherwood is taking the executive on the…
The Environment Court is likely to reconvene in September to review responses to its interim decision on regional council plans to improve water quality in the Waikato and Waipā rivers. The Waikato Regional Council has…
Former Te Awamutu based Waipā posties Danny and Ian Kennedy have abandoned their damages claim for breach of contract against NZ Post. The national postal service cancelled the couple’s contract to deliver “all mail and…
The Department of Corrections has nearly completed a 21-hectare building project to add nearly 600 beds in 28 new buildings at Waikeria Prison. Increasing the size of the prison also comes with a staff increase…
