Express delivery The Environmental Protection Authority has approved the Cambridge to Piarere extension of the Waikato Expressway and work will start late next year. The expressway will track north of the existing State Highway One…
Express delivery The Environmental Protection Authority has approved the Cambridge to Piarere extension of the Waikato Expressway and work will start late next year. The expressway will track north of the existing State Highway One…
Waikato Regional Council manages and protects natural and physical resources, such as water, land, air, and coasts. The Waipā-King Country constituency has a population of 70,700 and takes in the Waipā, Ōtorohanga and Waitomo district council…
We put these seven questions to Tamahere-Woodlands ward candidates as voting started in the local body elections. 1 – Council work is time consuming – to sitting councillors, how many hours a week do you…
19 September, 10am *The print version of this story incorrectly placed Crystal Beavis in the Jacqui Church camp. 18 September 8am It’s highly competitive – but it’s also very cordial. Five candidates – including the…
The winter cobwebs have been well and truly blown away. Scout cutters, kayaks and sunbursts took to Lake Rotoroa for the first official boating event of the organisation’s 2025/26 season with the 49th Alistair Kerr…
The resource consent application for a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu remains suspended, a month after the applicant told The News its outstanding bill would be settled. The Environmental Protection Authority suspended processing…
Tamahere residents have been given a different take on why they should support the retention of Waikato District Council’s Māori wards. Ngāruawāhia based Tilly Turner will be returned unopposed to the council’s Tai Runga Māori…
Waipā district mayoral candidates were governed by a red squeaky toy at a meeting last Thursday. And for the second time in a row, sitting mayor Susan O’Regan topped an informal poll. Te Awamutu Business…
Those involved in developing an ecological corridor linking Maungatautari to Mt Pirongia are renewing efforts to extend the project from its initial five-year timeline into the future. The Taiea te Taiao Ecological Corridor project launched…
A Waikato-based climate scientist says ‘no way’ should New Zealand pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change. “It’s a nonsensical premise to even consider, and just clickbait from certain politicians to even raise…
