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On the Waipa Radar – here is the news in secret

12 September 2025 Waipa District Council has provided The News with On the Radar editions numbers 13, 14, and 15 See: Council response       22 August 2025 After we had to request them…

Consultants cash clash

12 September 2025 Updated to include responses from Clyde Graf and Stuart Kneebone. 10 September 2025 A disagreement over the definition of “consultants” versus “consultancy services” has put a team of Waikato Regional Council candidates…

Wanted: a new roof

Cambridge Community House, struggling to meet increasing demand for its services, must replace the roof on one of its older buildings. The timing isn’t great, but it must be done and preferably by the end…

Backing the great outdoors

Two Waipā school leaders are urging people to make their voices heard on a Government plan to remover outdoor education from the senior subject list. The proposal abolishes NCEA and replaces it with a Foundational…

Here come the bands

Music from the ‘40s and memories of the Battle of Britain are central to a concert on Sunday jointly featuring the Cambridge Brass Band and the Cambridge Little Big Band. The afternoon concert at the…

All aboard – it’s Bernie’s bus

Cambridge’s Bernard and Margaret Pearson have donated a health shuttle to the Cambridge St John fleet. In the 12 months to July the Cambridge team made about 2600 trips for more than 400 patients ranging…

Walkies to a new home…

Waikato greyhound lovers and their pets will take to Cambridge Raceway later this month for the Great Global Greyhound Walk. Organised by Jenny Bartlett and the Shoebox Appeal, this marks the third time Cambridge has…

Book’s memories revived

Another chance donation to the Cambridge Hospice Shop has given a decades-old item a new and timely purpose. When a well-thumbed scrapbook came in, nothing about the front cover and its picture of a rabbit…

Clyde Graf – Waikato Regional Council

Clyde Graf – Waikato Regional Council See: Candidates in their own words Do you support the use of 1080 to combat pests? (50 words) and what is the biggest threat to our native flora and…

Spending report released

Intervention from the Ombudsman has led to Waipā District Council releasing an event economic impact analysis to The News. Parts of the report – commissioned by the council in June and produced by Infometrics –…

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