Environment Court Judge Brian Dwyer will chair the inquiry into Global Contracting Solutions’ resource consent application to build a giant incinerator in Te Awamutu. He will be joined by Resource Management Act hearings commissioner Nicholas…
Environment Court Judge Brian Dwyer will chair the inquiry into Global Contracting Solutions’ resource consent application to build a giant incinerator in Te Awamutu. He will be joined by Resource Management Act hearings commissioner Nicholas…
Several Rosetown Lions women spent Monday afternoon preparing gifts for the club’s annual Santa’s Grotto initiative. They spent the time wrapping and labelling Christmas presents for children visiting Santa at his First National spot in…
Early in the morning of 10 June 1886, surveyor John Rochfort in Kihikihi experienced a bizarre show on the horizon beyond Maungatautari. “I was awakened by what sounded like an irregular discharge of artillery… I…
A former Maniapoto Māori Trust Board chief executive has been named Trust Waikato’s new chair. Janise Hine-kapetiu Eketone (Waikato–Maniapoto) has held leadership positions with Te Whatu Ora Waikato, including director of Māori Health Strategy. She…
Waipā’s Monavale orchard is toasting success borne out of disaster. Just over two years after a budding crop was almost obliterated by an unseasonable October frost which hit both production and employment, Monavale has reinvented…
Cambridge retailers have been told to expect a sharper focus on shoplifting from police in 2025. At a retailers’ gathering last week Cambridge police sergeant Greg Foster said Richard Chambers brings that focus as the…
They say Ōhaupō’s new stables match anything in Kentucky. Mary Anne Gill checks out Breckon Farm. A Waikato horse breeding legend has described Breckon Farm’s new state of the art complex in Ōhaupō as “world…
Among several coins that I have dating from the antiquities is a genuine ‘widow’s mite’. Also known as a lepton, meaning ‘small,’ these coins were made of bronze. Their tiny size matches their value –…
Electric double decker buses were out and about in Waipā last week as drivers trained on them in preparation for their debut on the Cambridge and Te Awamutu routes. Passengers on the Cambridge 20 and…
A best selling author is helping raise funds for a New Zealand team via a Trade Me auction. David Baldacci is auctioning the chance to name a character in his next novel. And the funds…
