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Games teach conservation 

A new tool in the form of games for students to learn about the Maungatautari to Pirongia ecological corridor has been created. The Taiea te Taiao Education Box was launched last week at Pirongia Forest…

Dads, sons and All Blacks

Two former Hautapu hookers caught up following the All Blacks game in Auckland on Saturday night. Chris Carter and David Roigard watched their sons, Leroy and Cam, represent their country at Eden Park. A year…

Getting faster for France

The velodrome hums with energy as the team preparing for the World Masters in Roubaix, France gathers for another training session. The sound of wheels on tape, click, click, mixes with the low rush of…

Where now for incinerator plan?

The company wants to burn rubbish to create energy – but the trail on Global Contracting Solutions’ plans has gone cold. It has been six weeks since the Environmental Protection Authority revealed it had stalled…

Another complaint

The New Zealand Media Council is investigating Good Local Media’s handling of a Waikato Chamber of Commerce meet the candidates gathering where the business group invited four Hamilton mayoral candidates to speak at the request…

Get involved – vote

The editor desires to keep me beavering on election-related opinion pieces until the last ballot box has been emptied. Not exactly an exciting gig for an open-minded octogenarian but I shall comply. Firstly, have you…

Neuroscientist hails news

One of New Zealand’s leading brain research scientists, Sir Richard Faull, told a Cambridge audience last week that he was ‘over the moon’ at news of a breakthrough in the treatment of Huntington’s disease. Speaking…

Isn’t life strange?

No doubt there’ll be some readers who might recognise that the title for this article is the title for a 1972 hit song released by English progressive rock band ‘The Moody Blues’. In the early 70’s…

105… just luck says Les

The remarkable Leslie ‘Les’ Winslade QSM celebrated his 105th birthday last weekend, surrounded by family and friends, cards from luminaries and photographic memories of his life. When asked by The News how he had managed…

How votes are rolling in

All that effort, all those words, all the advertising, videos and social media posts and what do we have to show for it with a week to go? When The News went to press, election…

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