Waipā’s spatial plan engagement programme has become a victim of its own success and the team behind it is under pressure to provide individual presentations before feedback closes in 11 days. Strategy manager Kirsty Downey…
Waipā’s spatial plan engagement programme has become a victim of its own success and the team behind it is under pressure to provide individual presentations before feedback closes in 11 days. Strategy manager Kirsty Downey…
A second controversial decision made by a Waipā District Council independent commissioner in favour of several hectares of kiwifruit shelter belts in Parallel Road is to be appealed. Alan Withy last week granted two applications…
Thirty women took the opportunity to hear from 10 successful female authors by enjoying a girls’ night in the Cambridge Library on Friday in celebration of International Women’s Day and Authors Month. The Waikato authors…
Five years after her son finished cancer treatment, Rosie Smith is hoping to serve up an ace for the charity that helped her family. The professional tennis coach is teaming up with Cambridge Racquets Club…
Waipā District Council has joined a nation-wide library movement and is proposing to remove library fines. The proposal is outlined in a revised schedule of council’s fees and charges for 2023/24, to go out for…
Cambridge High School families have dug deep to support students of Wairoa College in Hawke’s Bay affected by Cyclone Gabrielle and raised more than $3000 from a mufti day. “Everyone’s really wanting to get behind…
On 19 February 1975 Ngāuruhoe, our most active volcano at the time, produced one of the more violent recent eruptions in Aotearoa. The seven-hour event launched an ash plume of pulverized rock and hot gases…
A basic longing all human beings have is to feel ‘connected’. In Tom Hanks’ movie, Cast Away he plays a Fed-Ex executive who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone, marooned on an island…
Waipā has been allocated an extra $10,000 to invest in projects and ideas that rethink, reduce and reuse waste across the district. The money comes from the Ministry for the Environment but is administered by…
A former Waipā based photographer based in Germany is helping raise awareness of mental health service in New Zealand. Conceptual fine art photographer Leigh Schneider’s solo exhibition Beyond the Shadows shows her work on topics…
