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Six Waipā residents have put in 15 per cent of the 434 official information requests to the council in the last year, taking up more than eight weeks’ staff time. The most prolific requester, with…

Waikato’s female local body leaders have committed to reviving the Women in Politics movement buoyed by their performances in the recent elections. Hamilton deputy mayor Angela O’Leary will coordinate the group which was popular when…

Waipā Networks Trust has appointed Sarah Matthews as its new chairperson, the first woman to lead the trust. David McLean was chosen as the trust’s deputy chairperson. Matthews, a chartered accountant with Ruapehu District Council,…

Chamber’s targets outlined If Susan O’Regan was expecting a charmed ride at her first Cambridge Chamber of Commerce ‘Meet the Mayor’ function, it took all of two minutes for chief executive Kelly Bouzaid to disavow…

When award-winning documentary film director Costa Botes asked Andrew Johnstone if he could film him and his cows in Cambridge, Johnstone readily agreed thinking nothing more about it. Two years on, as he looks at…

Breaking News: 3 November midday Waipā Networks Trust has appointed Sarah Matthews as its new chairperson, the first woman to lead the trust. David McLean was chosen as the trust’s deputy chairperson. Matthews, a chartered…

Pamela Storey is under no illusion she’s got a tough road ahead of her as Waikato Regional Council chair. “I understand fully how big this role is,” she told The News this week. It was…

The next three years will bring economic challenges and once in a lifetime legislative reform which by its very nature will bring uncertainty, debate and trials, says Waipā’s first female mayor Susan O’Regan. Speaking at…

Ian Dunn has presided over more St Andrew’s craft fairs than the veteran verger is prepared to admit. But he is in no doubt that Labour Day Monday’s event – the first in two years…

It’s going to be the ‘Susan and Liz Roadshow’ from here on with senior staff members along for the ride. Waipā District’s new mayor Susan O’Regan and deputy Liz Stolwyk have embarked on a meet…