Scam alert raised

A  Waipā Community safety officer is warning residents to be alert to a wave of scams. Mandy Merson says scammers are using a variety of tactics to snare people – and take their money or…

Half a century in New Zealand, and he considers himself a Kiwi – but Roger Gordon is very much a royalist. And he expects to be on breakfast duty at some point this weekend while…

A delegation from Waipā was in Auckland this week to hear more about new links with Cambridge’s sister city Le Quesnoy. Wētā Workshop will open an exhibition in the town which was liberated at the…

The second election for a Māori ward member on the Waipā District Council will be at least a four-way race. As this edition went to press Barney Manaia, Gaylene Roberts, Dale-Maree Morgan and Bill Harris…

Here’s our winner Waipā businesses have been give a big tick of approval from the one of two head judges of their major awards. When the business community gathered at Mystery Creek for the Waipā…

Former Waipā mayor Jim Mylchreest – a firm opponent of the Government’s Three waters proposal – remains unconvinced by the latest iteration of the plan. “I’m in the Chris Luxon camp,” he told The News….

Waipā residents are being asked to help fund a $27 million museum in Te Awamutu – but there is no legal agreement in place to actually house the significant collection it is being created for….

Plans to resurrect Rangiaowhia as a world heritage site – and home to iwi again, have been unveiled. Labour MP Angela Roberts travelled north from her Taranaki base to meet iwi representatives at Kihikihi last…

Cambridge’s Supergran says she has been overwhelmed by support she has received since The News told readers how she had thwarted a ramraid. Supergran was on an early morning Easter Monday coffee run when she…

Flyover campaigner John Hansen says evidence accepted by the Environment Court over the Piarere intersection of State Highway 1 and 29 is out of touch. In ruling Waka Kotahi could go ahead with a roundabout…