If you thought it was scorchingly hot in Waipā last week, it sure was – and a Niwa meteorologist says it is going to get hotter. The temperature gauge hit 34.7°C at Niwa’s Lake Karāpiro…
If you thought it was scorchingly hot in Waipā last week, it sure was – and a Niwa meteorologist says it is going to get hotter. The temperature gauge hit 34.7°C at Niwa’s Lake Karāpiro…
Waipā residents will wake up to a new year and a new entrance to a favourite spot, with the reopening of Maungatautari Reserve’s Hicks Road access on 1 January 2022. The reopening brings access to…
The Grey Street Dairy has closed down. Owner Wei Na shut the doors to the 60-year-old business today saying: “Thank you for all your support throughout these years especially in (the) last few months.” The…
The Te Awa River Road Cycleway from Cambridge to Tamahere was completed before Christmas and will open to cyclists next month. Construction to clear some trees and complete retaining walls, drainage installation, recontouring and landscaping…
A new multi-stage development at Cambridge Resthaven is one step closer with building consent granted by Waipā District Council. The four-storey development at Cambridge Resthaven in Vogel St will comprise 77 apartments, a café, shop,…
Long serving St Peter’s Catholic School teacher Gillian Kneebone was farewelled with love, laughter and tears on her last day at the Cambridge school. After 32 years as a teacher – 26 of them at…
A legal fighting fund to challenge Waipā District Council’s decision to require passports for public venues has raised more than $6000 towards the $10,500 it needs to go to court. Nina Parker, the Cambridge woman…
Even as the awards keep coming, Cambridge’s fire chief Don Gerrand remains the smiling, humble man he is known to be. He has ‘lived and breathed’ the Cambridge Fire Brigade for more than 50 years…
A Cambridge woman is behind a representative legal action trying to reverse Waipā District Council’s decision to ban unvaccinated people from its facilities. Nina Parker, who The News understands was turned away from a Waipā…
Part of the unspent $258,645 in the Waipā Covid community recovery fund will go towards temporary fencing at Lake Karāpiro’s Mighty River Domain. The domain will have temporary fencing until end of April – the area fenced…
