Monetary policy in New Zealand is at an interesting crossroads. The June quarter Cost Price Index (CPI) data on the surface looked positive. Overall, the CPI rose by 3.3 per cent in the year to…
Monetary policy in New Zealand is at an interesting crossroads. The June quarter Cost Price Index (CPI) data on the surface looked positive. Overall, the CPI rose by 3.3 per cent in the year to…
The lost Plunket record book that inspired a serendipitous search for its owners has found its family. How the search came to an end is unusual to say the least. It’s also testimony to the…
The new Cambridge primary school which was to address the town’s burgeoning population and cater for children with special needs is on hold. The Education ministry made the announcement on its website on Friday –…
Battle lines have been drawn in Cambridge – one to see an under-threat water tower remain, the other to hear its 143-year-old church bells ringing again. Mary Anne Gill reports on Protecting their history. A…
Pigeons and their toxic poo have silenced the six bells in St Andrew’s Anglican Church belfry. One of the four kauri pillars holding up the bell tower at the historic white Cambridge church is rotten…
It has been another busy week in Cambridge and a foggy one. Frustratingly, we continue to have drivers not using their headlights in the fog, which is madness. If your headlights are set to auto,…
There is something about time travel which has always fascinated me and watching the St Peter’s School student-led movie The Case fed that interest. The 52-minute murder mystery film opens Friday at the school’s Thornton…
Taupō MP Louise Upston has defended the deferral of Cambridge’s new primary school saying the Education ministry had to prioritise funding based on where need was the greatest. Despite the infrastructure outside the school in…
Nifty shades of Gray In charge of the telephone exchange starting late last century at the Waikato Times she was, in many ways, the newspaper’s public voice. Now Hamilton’s Operatic Society is planning the ultimate…
25 July 2pm The gouged verge at the Shakespeare Street roundabout has been repaired and lawn seed reapplied. But it already appears as if a vehicle has gone over it. 25 July 5am Truckies say…
