A claim farmers could halt the implementation of a Waikato Regional Council water quality plan change by “voting in the right people” has been dismissed. Plan Change One was developed by a 24-member collaborative stakeholder…
A claim farmers could halt the implementation of a Waikato Regional Council water quality plan change by “voting in the right people” has been dismissed. Plan Change One was developed by a 24-member collaborative stakeholder…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A detailed 1:24 replica of Cambridge’s St Andrew’s Church is looking for a home. Roger Dean’s Lilliputian version of the iconic church has popped up in several places since he completed it in late 2017….
Greg Foran returned to Hamilton last month on Air New Zealand’s first domestic jet service to the airport in 25 years. He spoke to senior writer Mary Anne Gill as his remarkable leadership journey with the…
