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A Waipā farming leader says the hit dairy farmers are taking because of a reduced milk payout will hurt communities like Te Awamutu and Cambridge hard. Ōhaupō dairy farmer Andrew Reymer says incomes down on…

Cambridge Netball Centre have rejected claims of netball bias and racism aimed at it from a team it kicked out of its premier mixed league last week. Evolution Netball say its gold team has been…

Thousands of invasive gold clams were found on Lake Karāpiro’s foreshore during the annual lake lowering on Saturday, 24 hours after they were designated an “unwanted organism.” And the find has confirmed Karāpiro Domain site…

Waipā District Council has declined to say how many consultants and contractors it uses and how much it costs the council. The request came from an activist group which supports lower taxes, less waste and…

Welcome to Waipā: Home of the Sceptics, for we are champions no more. That’s been confirmed in the latest annual Waipā residents’ survey with 54 per cent of the respondents described as sceptics and a…

At least 62 Waipā building consents have been caught up in allegedly fraudulent engineering sign-offs. Waipā District Council is one of more than 40 councils impacted by the actions of Jonathan Beau Hall of Kodiak…

Former Waipā district councillor Takena Stirling has been struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors and his misconduct has cost the Law Society’s Fidelity Fund in the vicinity of $90,000. He appeared before the…

It’s only natural for yearling managers to have their favourites when preparing for the sales, but it’s rare they get to call them their own. However, Wentwood Grange’s Brad Molander is an exception, and he…

Waipā District Council is looking to make changes to its District Plan to accommodate a burgeoning kiwifruit industry while at the same time residents are taking council to the Environment Court over the council’s decision…

Waipā’s two racing clubs in Te Awamutu and Cambridge have joined forces with the big city Waikato club in Hamilton to become one multimillion dollar super entity called Waikato Thoroughbred Racing. The mega club’s first…