Regional councillor Clyde Graf has called for an end to closed-door workshops. In an exclusive column for The News, he says the Waikato Regional Council held 58 closed-door workshops in 2021-22, where the Hamilton City…
Regional councillor Clyde Graf has called for an end to closed-door workshops. In an exclusive column for The News, he says the Waikato Regional Council held 58 closed-door workshops in 2021-22, where the Hamilton City…
Hello everyone. I’m Jeremy Smith, and I’m really excited to be back as a journalist here at The News. I say back because – as some of you may remember – I was also here…
I was first elected to Waikato Regional Council in 2013, as the representative for the Thames-Coromandel Constituency. Following a six-year hiatus, I was re-elected in 2022 as one of the two representatives for the Waipā/King…
There are around 50 ongoing eruptions right now, but you won’t hear of most of them because they are not big enough to hit the news cycle. Fortunately, many don’t really impact the people around…
Two large areas on the northern side of Cambridge are being transformed from bare land into large retirement villages. Both will be surrounded on their borders by large housing areas, most of them new. One…
A pair of relative newcomers to bridge are earning their stripes with the Cambridge Bridge Club. Sue Keating and Els Cochrane joined at the start of last year’s beginner bridge lessons series. After quickly getting…
A fledgling Waipa not-for-profit organisation – Ko Wai Au Trust – is planning the next phase of its community-minded aspirations. The News reported on the trust’s launch in March and seven weeks later there are…
Waipā farmers finally have a free solution to complete an accurate and approved farm environment plan which shows their farm terrain down to the nearest metre. Three-dimensional mapping data known as LiDar (Light Detection and…
Hitting the lip of the jump at speed, he pulls on the handlebars, tips his head back and watches the snaking black asphalt open into a wide expanse of sky. When he’s up there, climbing…
You might say his aspirations are sky high, but there’s no doubt former Cambridge High School student Rohan Redgrave’s childhood dreams are – quite literally – taking flight. Now he’s landed a “hugely exciting” new…
