Council boosts media following

Waipā’s communication and engagement team issued 66 media releases in the three months from November 1 to keep the community engaged and updated on the council’s work. Many were picked up and published in full…

Rukuhia rebuild Both lanes of a short section of State Highway 3 between Rukuhia and Narrows roads near Hamilton airport are being rebuilt and closed to southbound traffic until April 5. The rebuild work involves…

Zac van Dorsten is the 2025 Waikato Dairy Manager of the Year. Van Dorsten, 27, manages Tony and Louise Collingwood’s 455-cow 165ha farm at Scown Road, Ōtorohanga. Van Dorsten, who is from Te Awamutu and…

The annual opportunity for Cambridge Chamber of Commerce members to get to know each other on the golf course was held at Cambridge Golf Club last week. Despite the fairways resembling the Sahara Desert, the…

Tamahere Sharks took out the Cambridge Bowling Club’s Twilight Bowls league last week holding out perennial winners All Hacks on the final night. Gabriel’s Golden Girls won the most popular team prize while Grassyass, comprising…

Grants announced Waikato Regional Council has $1.34 million from its Natural Heritage Fund   towards four landscape scale environmental projects including mounts Pirongia and Karioi. Te Whakaoranga o Karioi – The Karioi Project – gets almost…

Visits to the Cambridge News website and app continue to soar with a 56 per cent increase in numbers last month over the same period last year. The best read online story was Waikato District…

Balloons land Residents of Cambridge Park were surprised when they looked skyward early on Saturday morning to find several hot air balloons hovering over the Leamington suburb. So when the balloons landed on the Oval,…

Olympic Games double gold medallist, Ellesse Andrews set a world record, while the kiwi endurance riders dominated on the final day of the UCI Oceania Track Cycling Championships in Brisbane. The Cambridge-based sprint cyclist set…

Opening kept quiet A good news health story was kept under wraps by Health NZ at the weekend. The opening of a regional renal centre by the Māori Queen Nga Wai Hono i te po…