Taupō MP Louise Upston has met Transport Minister Chris Bishop to advocate for the construction of on-off ramps at the southern end of the Waikato Expressway. She cited growing concerns from the Cambridge community. At…
Taupō MP Louise Upston has met Transport Minister Chris Bishop to advocate for the construction of on-off ramps at the southern end of the Waikato Expressway. She cited growing concerns from the Cambridge community. At…
Off line… New centre line markings in Cambridge’s Fort Street will be removed and repainted after residents noticed they were not straight. Council contractors finished the new road layout last week to formalise 37 parking…
A team effort involving a retailer and police led to the successful capture of two shoplifters last week. Quick thinking store staff identified suspicious behaviour and immediately rang 111 with details of the theft, the…
Cambridge Connections reset underway Mayor Susan O’Regan, Cambridge ward councillor Mike Pettit, Maori ward councillor Dale-Maree Morgan and Maungatautari councillor Mike Montgomerie will be part of the Cambridge Connections Project Governance group for the next…
Over 40 New Zealand riders – several from Waipā – have congregated in the cycling city of Copenhagen for the UCI BMX Racing World Championships. Eleven kiwis will contest the elite racing, which follows the…
Geology tends to move very slowly, until it doesn’t. Below our feet are enormous tectonic plates moving at around the speed fingernails grow. Depending on location, there may also be molten magma, faults that will…
The spectre of abuse in some New Zealand care institutions will remain unless those responsible are held accountable and a bipartisan government approach is taken to address the recommendations of the Royal Commission of Inquiry…
Waikato Regional Council is back as a member of Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ), following chair Pamela Storey’s casting vote to overturn last month’s decision to leave. The motion to renew the council’s $80,375.55 LGNZ…
What careers will still be around in five years? That was one of the questions on Alicia Smart’s mind as she visited a free Community Careers Expo at the Cambridge Town Hall last Thursday with…
Perceptions around refugees and displaced people were unpicked this month by a Cambridge-based academic whose life has been shaped by his own flight from El Salvador in 1981. Dr Vladimir Pacheco was speaking at the…
