A drive in the country

Southbound drivers from Karāpiro were given what would have been for many, a different view of the countryside last week. A detour took traffic along Karāpiro and Taotaoroa roads while work was carried out on…

Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari neighbours are being offered “aversion training’ for their dogs – as part of the project to establish the North Island’s first breeding colony for over a century. Community support for the sanctuary…

It’s been a long time between beers. The last edition of this column ran before the Covid lockdown. “I’ll get it up and running soon,” I have regularly told Gary and David between beers. You…

Good Local Media – the company which publishes The News – has added another masthead to its portfolio. Owner David Mackenzie announced this week he had purchased the King Country News, which had been part…

When Peter and Robyn Carr moved to Cambridge it was a matter of convenience. By 2005 they had grown tired of the bustle of Auckland and decided it was time to move south to be…

As we emerge from the shadow of an epidemic and endure cost of living rises, one thing is certain in 2024 – councils around the country, including Waipā, will announce major rate increases. Waipā’s proposed…

The new government will be asked to approve or decline the waste to energy plant application for Te Awamutu. A statement from the Waikato Regional Council last week announced it is asking Environment minister Penny…

He’s gone from fact to fiction. Cambridge born economist Peter Nicholl, who appears fortnightly in The News with his Talking Economics column, has released a political thriller book. Sanctions in Paradise has South African infiltrators…

Just do it and do it properly. That’s the message from the Waikato Chamber of Commerce to the incoming government about the Cambridge to Piarere Waikato Expressway extension shelved in 2017. Discussing a list of…

A Cambridge lobby group has started a battle to stop the town’s water supply bring fluoridated. The outgoing director general of health Ashley Bloomfield instructed the Waipā District Council to add fluoride to Cambridge supplies…