Waipā District Council continues to face significant financial pressure with growth‑driven infrastructure demand, rising costs and higher debt remaining central to decision‑making. Its annual report for the year ended 30 June 2025 records an operating…
Conditions were perfect for the Waipā Fun Run on Sunday. Mary Anne Gill, who competed in the first event 15 years ago, was there with her notebook and camera to record the day. Lane Madsen…
Kerin Buttimore is a regular competitor at the Waipā Fun Run in Cambridge, and Sunday marked his first as an 80‑year‑old in a field of more than 700. “I wondered where all the fitness has…
Waikato University has been criticised by Waipā District Council chief executive Steph O’Sullivan for failing to acknowledge the Māori Queen’s recent Economic Forum at its own event last month. Writing in an exclusive column for…
Health Minister Simeon Brown used the opening of Life Flight’s new Waikato airbase at Hamilton Airport last week to underline the importance of well‑resourced emergency services at a time when pressure on the health system…
From pandemics and floods to cyber disruption, climate change and landslides, New Zealand is entering an era where shocks are no longer rare events. If proof was needed, it came the day after Waikato University…
To the west of Pirongia, where the road gives way to harbour and tide, farming doesn’t always happen on land. At Aotea Harbour, the Dockery family has quietly farmed the water since the 1980s –…
Cambridge High School’s new uniform rollout has hit snags – and some students are wearing donated clothing as a result of stock shortages. The supplier is blaming “forecasting” errors for the shortfall and is air-freighting…
Cambridge Velodrome is to progress from an elite cycling centre to a multi‑purpose venue. Mary Anne Gill reports. Cambridge Velodrome is entering what its chair describes as a “turning point in our history”, with a…
When I was a kid, I loved the song There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly sung by the delightful Burl Ives. It tells the story of an old lady who swallows increasingly…
