Waipā residents’ perception of the council is up three per cent on last year but still lower than previous years. Twenty-two per cent of the 485 residents surveyed said they were satisfied with the council’s…
Waipā residents’ perception of the council is up three per cent on last year but still lower than previous years. Twenty-two per cent of the 485 residents surveyed said they were satisfied with the council’s…
After refereeing more than 100 football matches, Liam Weston is no stranger to the tension a high-stakes game can generate. “You have to control players, and you know you’re going to make mistakes – and…
Waipā District Council has forced the sale of a Cambridge property owned by a person who had not paid any rates since September 2016. Council is owed nearly $32,000 and took a rating sale by…
Steampunkers and their fans filled the Cambridge Town Hall on Saturday, clattering and swishing their way around a full programme of family activities. The event was the fourth to be arranged by the Cambridge-based InterlockNZ…
Goodbye cones, well some of them. Waipā District Council has been working with contractors to trial using fewer cones for recent watermain work in Cambridge, Human Resources Operations manager Clark Collins told the Finance and…
Occasionally I decide to use these opinion pieces to give the local district council a nudge or a serve regarding their tired – and sometimes tiring – efforts to balance democracy with physical reality. Aka,…
Brooke Francis and Lucy Spoors get stopped in the supermarket a bit more now they’re Olympic champions – and they don’t mind at all. “The Cambridge community has been a joy to come home to,”…
The phrase to “finish well” no doubt means different things to different people. Our values and the criteria we use to determine what ‘success’ is, will shape whether we think we’re on a trajectory to…
Dean Signal reckoned he was in something of a unique position, career-wise. “I have hundreds of people underneath me, but I never receive a complaint,” he’d often say. As sexton for Cambridge’s three cemeteries, he…
Business leaders and the heavy traffic industry say Waipā District Council’s lack of consultation with them over major arterial route changes is concerning. Their comments come after the council released an independent post construction audit…
