Local woman’s history with La Leche league

    The woman who brought La Leche League to New Zealand 54 years ago was an only child who admits she scarcely knew what a baby was before having five of her own. Scots-born…

Te Awamutu’s ‘muffin lady’ Jill Taylor is hoping more people across the region will volunteer to make muffins for mums at Waikato Hospital’s New-born Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Jill spearheads an initiative she started 11…

The return of racing to the airways this month as part of a new sports radio network leaves Cambridge’s Florence Shearman feeling vindicated in her efforts to bring racing back to the fans. Radio Sport…

The potential for trafficking vulnerable girls is heightened in countries facing the dual dangers of abject poverty combined with the absence of a welfare safety net, says Helen Clark, particularly in a pandemic-stressed environment. The…

The thousands of volunteers who keep Cambridge ticking over, often behind the scenes, have been thanked as part of the June 20-26 National Volunteer Week. Several in-house gatherings were held to recognise volunteers within their…

A dramatic break-in at Stirling Sports in the early hours of last Sunday was the third in the town in 10 days. The cases could be linked and one arrest has already been made. A…

Interlock Waipā, the Cambridge-based initiative launched last year for those living with disabilities, has formalised its status. The InterlockNZ Trust was incorporated in late May, spearheaded by the man who founded Interlock last July, well-known disability worker for 35 years, Aaron Ure.  Joining him as…

  A massive black walnut tree – stately even as it stands leafless in its Cambridge garden – is believed to be the largest in New Zealand and the southern hemisphere, and the fourth largest in the world. This particular specimen of Jurglans nigra, or eastern American black walnut,…

Sam Scott is a man on a mission.  The Waikato University business student has teamed up with a national cup lending system called Again Again in an effort to turn Cambridge into a hot coffee…

The stories behind some of Cambridge’s historic buildings and the characters who have occupied them are central to a new Cambridge Museum series starting in next week’s Cambridge News. ‘Backchat’ will feature curtain-twitcher tales linked…