Waipā District Council staff have recommended 17 organisations receive funding from this year’s District Promotion Fund, which was halved to $75,000, down from $150,000 last year. A total of 48 applications requesting $425,643 in funding…
It’s a caterer’s worst nightmare – more people turned up than expected. Organisers were delighted nonetheless on Sunday at the Battle of Britain concert in the Cambridge Town Hall put on jointly by the Cambridge…
Schools from across Waikato and King Country brought their environmental education learning to Cambridge last week for the Enviroschools Conservation Week event. Students from Te Miro, Kio Kio, Te Awamutu, Paterangi, Wharepapa South, Te Pahu,…
Whether it was Shirley Julian’s sausage rolls and carrot cake supplied to celebrate her 95th birthday or the promise of a cracking mayoral debate, the reason for the crowd is debatable. But what is certain…
Twenty-one Waipā teams braved wild weather to take part in WaiBop Football Federation’s junior 5-a-side tournament in Hamilton on Sunday. Despite torrential rain and gale-force winds at the start of the event, children from across…
Peter Martin has been a keen walker around Cambridge since retiring 12 years ago. So when Eileen Hawkins asked him to do a stocktake of signs for Neighbourhood Support, he didn’t hesitate to say yes….
This article is an update of our 18 September 2025 print version Mystery surrounded a last-ditch attempt today to prevent more than 200 truck movements a day through the Cambridge CBD by introducing a no-right-turn…
12 September 2025 Waipa District Council has provided The News with On the Radar editions numbers 13, 14, and 15 See: Council response 22 August 2025 After we had to request them…
12 September 2025 Updated to include responses from Clyde Graf and Stuart Kneebone. 10 September 2025 A disagreement over the definition of “consultants” versus “consultancy services” has put a team of Waikato Regional Council candidates…
Intervention from the Ombudsman has led to Waipā District Council releasing an event economic impact analysis to The News. Parts of the report – commissioned by the council in June and produced by Infometrics –…
