Dairy farmers Dave Swney and Alice Trevelyan turned to growing native plants to earn a secondary income to complement their farm. Trevelyan drew on her experience as a Waikato Regional Council catchment management officer four…
An endowment fund is being launched to fund the ongoing replacement of the world’s largest predator proof fence If the fund reaches its $42 million target it would return $2 million a year, Sanctuary Mountain…
Copper thieves have targeted two of Waikato’s historic churches. The raids on St Paul’s in Rangiaowhia Rd, Hairini, and on St John’s in Te Awamutu’s Arawata St have prompted church staff to start sleeping over….
District councils are signing up to the Waikato Waters Done Well philosophy. Waipā and Waitomo council both agreed last week to enter into a Heads of Agreement as part of the project. The decisions commit…
Environment Court Judge Brian Dwyer will chair the inquiry into Global Contracting Solutions’ resource consent application to build a giant incinerator in Te Awamutu. He will be joined by Resource Management Act hearings commissioner Nicholas…
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Minister of Agriculture Todd McClay heard at Mystery Creek how low farmer confidence has dropped last week. The message came from Federated Farmers national president Wayne Langford at the Federated…
Forming a multi council-controlled organisation for water services is the first step to creating a unitary authority in the Waikato. That’s the view of Waipā District Council Cambridge Ward member Mike Pettit who shared his…
Waipā District Council is drafting a submission against the building of the Paewira waste to energy plant in Racecourse Road in Te Awamutu. Councillors who debated the plan last week said they believed the wrong…
Grey Ormsby is buzzing because he did not listen to his father. A quarter of a century after Waitomo Group founder Desmond Ormsby advised his son Grey to exit the fuel supply industry the company…
The rural economy – and potentially its major service towns – is about to get a shot in the arm. The region’s dairy farmers will receive an extra $65 million if Fonterra delivers on its…
