Playing it safe

The Cambridge News Person of the Year Award has, for the first time, not gone to a person. It’s gone to a school community. Mary Anne Gill explains. Karāpiro School might be small but there…

Burn outs, donuts and excessive speed by boy racers could be a thing of the past in parts of Te Awamutu and Kihikihi following a Waipā District Council recommendation. Transportation safety officer Julie Taylor told…

Waipā-King Country’s Clyde Graf has been elected Waikato Regional Council’s environmental performance committee chair. And in a shock, his experienced colleague Stu Kneebone of Cambridge missed out on chairing any of the key “discretionary” council…

It might have been, in Kelly Bouzaid’s words, a “tumultuous year” but the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce finished it financially healthy and committed to advocacy. In her chief executive’s report to the 34th annual meeting…

A community newspaper advertising campaign calling for registered and enrolled nurses and midwives keen to return to work at Waikato, Thames, Te Kūiti, Taumarunui or Tokoroa hospitals has hit the target. The News understands within…

She is not even three days old yet, but already Mia MacKay has created history. Cambridge Community Board member Alana MacKay and husband Phil welcomed their first child, a daughter Mia Christina McCathie MacKay, born…

Kathy Miller has been a teacher for 50 years and as she contemplates life away from the classroom, she keeps coming back to the profession that was always more than a job for her. “I…

Waipā ratepayers paid a Christchurch company $9.23c for every vote cast in the recent local body elections. The $145,000 bill from ElectionNZ to run the election netted 15,703 votes for a 39.65 per cent return….

Workshops in Cambridge have established the town’s reliance on private vehicles is likely to grow unless other transport options are made available. The engagement, part of the Cambridge Connections Business Case preparation, agreed on the…

The 2.4 kilometres of flexible median barriers installed on SH1 south of Cambridge from Fergusson Gully Road have already saved lives, according to Waka Kotahi. And the Government land transport agency says the installation of…