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Passengers catching the regional bus services from Cambridge and Tamahere hit record levels last month but fare hikes are on the way. Frequency has been given as the major reason for the boost in numbers…

Future representation has become a big issue for rural residents who have an opportunity to have their say at two hall meetings. The first is tonight at Maungatautari and there residents from Kaipaki, Monavale, Horahora…

10am 5 June 2024 A staff suggestion that Waipā District Council ditch its Age Friendly policy has been thwarted by a former veteran councillor. Kihikihi-based Hazel Barnes successfully argued at today’s Strategic Planning and Policy…

Waipā could reduce from 11 to eight the number of elected councillors sitting around the debating table. The move, subject to public feedback is understood to have gathered momentum under mayor Susan O’Regan in a…

Richard Paul Mills might have died at home alone and unclaimed by family, but there was no way the Returned and Services Association (RSA) was going to let him go that way. So, the call…

Cambridge Community Board members will hit the road to catch up with rural residents – but this time instead of visiting several country halls, they will go to just two. The first will be at…

Lauriston Park Retirement Village and St Peter’s Catholic School held Pink Ribbon fundraisers last week. Lauriston had a brunch with champagne to raise $3000 for the Breast Cancer Foundation’s research.

Female motorcyclists from around the central North Island will converge on Te Awamutu tomorrow (Friday) for the funeral of Donna Gaye McCauley. The 51-year-old died last week at Te Poi near Matamata following a crash…

It might have already racked up the kilometres and seen its fair share of dirty gardening business, but Cambridge Tree Trust is happy with its new ‘old’ ute. The 2011 Mitsubishi Triton will go quickly…

The bricks will stay but the neglected metal tank and outdoor walkway framing could go. That seems to be the fate of Cambridge’s historic Water Tower despite 62 per cent of the 223 submitters to…