Ousted Waikato Regional Council chair Russ Rimmington is back on the hustings and is promising to have a team to challenge for seats. Rimmington, a former Hamilton mayor, was thought a year ago to have…
Ousted Waikato Regional Council chair Russ Rimmington is back on the hustings and is promising to have a team to challenge for seats. Rimmington, a former Hamilton mayor, was thought a year ago to have…
Work is about to start on an $800,000 skatepark in Cambridge. Waipā District Council’s community services manager Brad Ward said the new Dominion Avenue facility will be a big attraction appealing to elite skaters as…
Student James Morgan got to hold the Lexus Melbourne Cup when it visited Cambridge Middle School during a whistle-stop tour of New Zealand last week – and found it a heavy responsibility. He had to…
A Cambridge entrepreneur is selling his web design business to focus on a new golf club, designed by his father. Jamie Moore, 35, is the founder of Bronte, a web design company that creates and…
Waipā council staff are catching up with processing consents and taking less time to do so, District Growth and Regulatory Services manager Wayne Allan told this week’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee. In the quarter…
The image of Cambridge’s iconic Carter’s Flat is of an area where industrial and commercial activity is to the fore. But in a proposed change to the Waipā District Plan, the 20ha of land looks…
A Cambridge 11-year-old whose mother died and was brought back to life has gone to great lengths to thank the Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter crew that helped save her. Tommy Peters handed over a $16,300…
The resource consent for a controversial Waipā quarry has stalled while planners acting for the district council seek further substantial information. Beacon Hill Contracting was to provide the information by June 30, but its consultants…
Waipā’s menacing and dangerous dog population has increased, Animal Control statistics released this week for the year ended June 30 show. The district has 135 menacing dogs – up from 118 the previous year. Menacing…
Cambridge’s Helen Hansen has to be one of the ballsiest shooting stars this town can claim. She’s our own version of the ‘Big Bang’s Bernadette’, a little bit rockabilly and a lot more besides. When…
