More drop-offs ahead
Waipā residents can expect more household hazardous waste drop-off events following the district’s second being deemed another success. “It is just a matter of providing a service for that tricky waste that people have trouble…
Waipā residents can expect more household hazardous waste drop-off events following the district’s second being deemed another success. “It is just a matter of providing a service for that tricky waste that people have trouble…
Highlights from Cambridge Oakdale’s Spring Wedding Gala on Friday September 2. Residents of Oakdale wore wedding gowns donated by the community for the special day. The highlight came when Chas Smith proposed to his wife…
Miriam Ellis spends several days of the week parked in front of a long-neglected but historic water tower which she says should get a new lease of life. It is something she and her customers…
Notices like this one in the Blue Drops bottle store window and newspaper advertising, are not the only way Waipā residents can find out about liquor applications. The Alcohol Regulatory and Licensing Authority has been…
The question of whether Waipā needs a third bridge over the Waikato River has exposed a previously well-hidden rift between incumbent Cambridge and Te Awamutu-based district councillors. In a survey sent to all 40 candidates…
Four projects in Cambridge, Te Awamutu, Kihikihi and Monavale have been allocated money in the recent round of the Waipā District Council-administered Heritage Fund. The most significant is a $28,681 grant to The Parish of…
Waipā District Council chief executive Garry Dyet and three other high-profile type one diabetics are calling on Pharmac to increase its funding for them and the country’s 28,000 other sufferers. They say the investment would…
Pharmac has not ruled out funding equipment for type one diabetics while groups like Diabetes New Zealand say the country is already facing a crisis. Earlier this year Diabetes New Zealand called on the government…
Karāpiro is watching one of the biggest hydro upgrades the Waikato River has seen – and The News has been given a tour to see how work to improve its energy generation is progressing. For…
The office has now reopened 22 August 5.23pm Waipā District Council staff received a threat by telephone this afternoon from a person in relation to a dog issue. As per normal process, council advised police…
