Waipā’s Monavale orchard is toasting success borne out of disaster. Just over two years after a budding crop was almost obliterated by an unseasonable October frost which hit both production and employment, Monavale has reinvented…
Cambridge retailers have been told to expect a sharper focus on shoplifting from police in 2025. At a retailers’ gathering last week Cambridge police sergeant Greg Foster said Richard Chambers brings that focus as the…
The life and comics of a Waipā artist who suffered a debilitating disease are being celebrated in two volumes of his work. Dean Ballinger, who died at age 48 in 2022 after enduring Motor Neuron…
In the 1970s at the South Waikato News in Tokoroa, Brian Burmester was a leading light in the New Zealand Community Newspaper Association of which Good Local Media owner David Mackenzie is now president. Burmester…
A come-and-go lake near Raglan has been declared the oldest in New Zealand. Lake Disappear – Mokaikaraka – is in a valley near Bridal Veil Falls dammed by lava flow 2.33 million years ago. It…
The winning team in this year’s Waikato University Management School case competition had strong Cambridge connections. Two of the four attended school in the town – and a third student with Cambridge ties was in…
Landowners have “retired” 8442 hectares of riparian or erosion prone land in the Waikato Regional Council area over seven years a new report says. At 8442ha – that’s 84.42 square kilometres – it’s bigger than…
Anti-fluoride campaigner Kane Titchener, buoyed by a court ruling in the United States, says he will ask Waipā District Council to liaise with 13 other councils to push back against adding the chemical to water…
Snap! The women match the men Roy Pilott was at John Kerkhof Park to see the club’s premier women emulate the men and win a home and away playoff to secure promotion to the Northern…
29 September 3pm Cambridge Women have won promotion to the Northern League women’s championships following a 3-3 draw with Onehunga Māngere United at John Kerfhof Park in Cambridge today. Cambridge goals came from Brooke Suisted…
