Federated Farmers is urging the Environmental Protection Authority to fast track the assessment of new treatments to fight New Zealand’s biggest agricultural pest. Native scarab beetle costelytra giveni, commonly known as native grass grub, costs…
Federated Farmers is urging the Environmental Protection Authority to fast track the assessment of new treatments to fight New Zealand’s biggest agricultural pest. Native scarab beetle costelytra giveni, commonly known as native grass grub, costs…
The term Mamil – Middle-Aged Man in Lycra – was coined by marketing gurus 15 years ago. Over the weekend, the Grassroots Cambridge Velodrome was full of them – and their female counterparts – at…
Cambridge Football Club served up a feast of football on Sunday as six matches stacked the schedule. The action kicked off at John Kerkhof Park at 10am, as the club’s U14 Talent Development Programme team…
Founding member of the Waipā Holstein Friesian Club, Brian Knutson, is tickled pink with the honorary life membership award bestowed on him at the club’s recent 50th jubilee celebrations. The retired farmer, who became the…
I am undertaking the brutal adjustment of coming from the oppressive, dusty heatwaves in Spain to mid-winter New Zealand – going from long, sunny days on the islands to frosty mornings. Several weeks ago now,…
The doubling of resource consent application costs led to the suspension of Global Contracting Solutions resource consent application to build a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu, the applicant says. Paeriwa waste-to-energy plant project…
Halfway through her first year as St Peter’s Catholic School principal, Nicole Higby is reflecting on how lucky she – and St Peter’s – really is. Results in the 2025 school board elections come out…
Horahora School’s principal Shannon Buckle has found her happy place. “I feel like this is the place that I am meant to be,” she said. Buckle took the role at the beginning of this year,…
The title above is the theme of an international painting competition organised by ‘Mayors for Peace’, a worldwide group of local body leaders representing cities and regions around the world. It’s open to young artists…
St John members from around the district were celebrated at Sunday’s Waipā and King Country Service Awards ceremony in Te Awamutu. Recipients were commended by Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan for their years of service to…
