Cambridge football prodigy – and newly minted Portsmouth winger – Luke Brooke-Smith is rewarding his former club’s training programme. The 18-year-old who made his senior debut three years ago for Cambridge has already won the…
Not that your nostrils would tell you, but in the Tamahere Community Centre there are dozens and dozens of cats and almost all of them are dozing in cages or performing on judges’ tables while…
The company behind plans to build a waste to energy plant in Waipā is on a New Zealand Gazette list to be removed from the Companies Register. Read more
Waipa district councillors have been applauded for listening to concerns about plans for the use of Lake Karāpiro. The new long term plan and masterplan for lake use – initially geared to favour non-motorised users…
The News reported last week we had two residents honoured with being made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the King’s Birthday Honours – in fact there were four. Tamahere based…
A new “gene silencing” product which prevents the varroa bee mite reproducing is likely to become part of New Zealand’s pest control arsenal. But it will have to get Environmental Protection Authority and Ministry of…
*Correction – Coal Groves becomes a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM), not a KSM. We apologise for the error. Colin – everyone calls him Coal – Groves has made quite an…
A trust is calling for restrictions on vaping, citing Waikato regional survey data showing daily e-cigarette use rose from three to 12 per cent in the five years to 2025. For Māori in Waikato, Te…
Jane Manson says she is humbled to be honoured with a King’s Service Medal for services to the community. The Hillcrest based St Stephen’s Church, Tamahere stalwart has previously received a Waikato District Mayoral Community…
A Waikato super council, for want of a better description, will inevitably be one of the options put to the Government by its August 9 deadline – but it doesn’t have to be the only…
