I love that volcanoes never cease to amaze me. I spent a few days last week just southeast of Ruapehu assisting two PhD students with their fieldwork. One is working to understand a set of…
I love that volcanoes never cease to amaze me. I spent a few days last week just southeast of Ruapehu assisting two PhD students with their fieldwork. One is working to understand a set of…
Waikato District Council has decided to defer its next Long Term Plan (LTP) until 2025. Using the opportunity offered under legislation repealing the previous Government’s Three Waters programme, the council will switch to an ‘enhanced…
It has been 551 days since Waikato Hospital doctors discovered a golf-ball-sized tumour ballooning inside Fionnlagh Adams’ brain. At risk of death from the pressure building in her skull, the four-year-old was rushed to Starship…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan has confirmed her council has no intention of selling its shares in Hamilton Airport but could be in the market to buy more. Speaking to The News’ sister publication Waikato Business…
The crew at Cambridge Hospice Shop have been congratulated by Hospice Waikato chief executive Craig Tamblyn for having raised $3.4 million for local hospice patients and their families over the past decade. Tamblyn spoke about…
The preferred option for a new bridge over the Waikato River showing the northern end of it going through Cambridge’s north-western suburbs has spooked residents. The realisation their houses could go under the Cambridge Connections…
Destination Cambridge has revealed it is exploring an independent tourism hub incorporating a visitor centre following Waipā District Council’s decision to cut its annual funding. The move to “go it alone” has been endorsed by…
Hello again, I’ll start with some more good work stories. Constable Tuhi recently attended a burglary where a work trailer was stolen from a site address on Thornton Road. His enquiries swiftly identified that the…
The All Hacks won Cambridge Bowling Club’s Business House six-week long bowls contest last night for the sixth successive year. Keith Hedges, Steve Thomas and Ray Lewis were a formidable force with 11 wins from…
Steph Bell Jenkins talks to a remarkable Waipā woman who would love to create a global revolution. Like her, they were children. Unlike her, they were living in slums, starving. Pieta Bouma is as outraged…
