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Apartments open with a message

It’s the conversation no-one wants to have – moving into a rest home – but having it with family sooner rather than later makes life better for everyone. Cambridge Resthaven chief executive David Hall has…

Horsepower on show

Neville Clark can spot a champion polo horse a mile off. He spins around in the assembly area at Mystery Creek Polo Club and points out millions of dollars’ worth of horse flesh. The Gisborne…

Four! Council back on budget tee

Resetting the budget became harder than expected for Waipā council this week with informed sources telling The News elected councillors are applying pressure on staff to scrap “nice to haves”. A public workshop on the…

‘Wilky’ vents over cameras

In eight years he and his staff at Challenge in Duke St, Cambridge, have endured three ramraids, three burglaries – and as of last Friday, an armed robbery. Oh, and there was also the incident…

Here they are: Our future

They’ve come through a pandemic, lived through their first global recession and a cost-of-living crisis might limit how much money their whānau can spend on them. But the 353 Year Nine students who started at…

An update, and a word of caution

Kia ora koutou katoa, we are having a lovely short week  – after a four day weekend  for some – and I hope everyone was able to get time to relax. First in good news,…

News in brief

The Kenworth bug … It was a day for owners of Kenworths last Saturday as almost 900 went on display at the Mystery Creek Events Centre and owners celebrated the start of the American company’s…

Aggravated robbery in Leamington

A group of young people entered a store in Cambridge at 5.50am today – understood to be BP Leamington – and allegedly assauted a shop worker before feeling with stolen goods. The worker sustained minor…

From riverbed to roundabout

The ceremonial start of a major roading project at Piarere provided dignitaries with an opportunity to learn about Māori legend, reports senior writer Mary Anne Gill. As invited dignitaries dug their glistening spades into the…

Raceway has eco-friendly solutions

A glass bottle crusher could solve two major problems for Cambridge Raceway – fixing potholes and recycling the thousands of bottles generated at the sports venue every year. And though an application to Waipā District…

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