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Waka Kotahi is under attack from enraged motorists following the road transport authority’s decision to implement a programme of safety improvements at Tamahere, the day after it opened the Waikato Expressway Hamilton section. The bottle…

Community boards: what it’s worth

Only one Waipā elected representative has claimed a childcare allowance payable to all councillors and community board members since 2019. Cambridge Community Board member Elise Badger, a parent of two children aged seven and four,…

Dying to go naturally

When Dawn Ivil died in 2017, her family honoured her wishes and interred her ashes in Leamington Cemetery’s natural burial section. Natural burials in Waipā are only available at Leamington but recent feedback, following revelations…

Library books up 150 years

Cambridge Library turned 150 last week but staff were too busy to make a fuss – other than cut a birthday cake – as they were issuing books and signing up new members. The library…

Waipā author fills a gap

Imagine living on a wild and windy bird sanctuary in New Zealand. Cambridge author Libby Kirkby-McLeod did too, so she wrote about it putting Eugene, his brother Miles and his parents on the island for…

Expressway Hamilton section opens

The weather that dumped heavy rain at the official opening of the Waikato Expressway Hamilton section on Tuesday delayed the public from using it until last night (Thursday). By 9am today (July 15) the numbers…

Three Waters claim withdrawn

Waipā District Council has pulled a sentence from a Three Waters reform media release it sent out last week and admitted the sentence was wrong. The release claimed people who do not take part in…

Cambridge bridge, what bridge?

Transport minister Michael Wood says he has not been briefed about the possibility of a third bridge in Cambridge over the Waikato River. He was just as coy on the possibility of the Waikato Expressway…

Caught by surprise

Four busloads of Australian tourists arrived in Cambridge on Sunday, but the town didn’t roll out the red carpet for the first overseas visitors in over two years – because most residents were unaware they…

Long Lunch success

More than 100 people attended the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Long Lunch in the Cambridge Town Hall on Friday July 1. A selection of artisan products, wine and entertainment from the Nairobi Trio – down…