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I love a good action movie, and if they have an eruption or some other geological disaster as a plot line I am in. With field work at Mount Doom (Ngāuruhoe) last week and making…

This week I attended facilitator training for the Loves Me Not programme which will be delivered to  Year 12 students later this month. The programme was  developed following the murder of Sophie Elliott by her…

I am writing these words in the early morning dawn of the first morning after retarding the clocks – a still morning that I suspect will herald a cool day. One of those mornings when…

By Pastor Ken Keyte, Cambridge Baptist Church During our recent church services at Cambridge Baptist we have been taking a few minutes to hear someone from our congregation share their faith story. We have heard…

When you turn on the hot tap in the kitchen in our house, you can fill up our common or garden watering can with cold water before it gets hot. That’s just over 5 litres….

The day this comes out I will be in the field with PhD student Amilea Sork, looking at huge rocks that were violently thrown out of the Ngāuruhoe crater during the 1950s and 1970s eruptions….

Art and Sport were well and truly represented this weekend as Cambridge was busy with residents and visitors enjoying the very popular and exciting Autumn Festival, the Maadi Cup regatta and street parade and the…

A little over a fortnight ago I experienced shooting pains in both arms and hands which caused some sleepless nights and then became so unbearable one early Thursday morning my wife took me to the…

It has been great to see everyone enjoying the Aon Maadi Regatta this week. Town has definitely been busy and we have welcomed the visitors for the event. One thing that has come to my…

The News published a story on March 16 headed ‘Audit rebuke for council’. Audit NZ had reviewed the spending controls of the Waipā District Council and found some areas that concerned them. The Cambridge News…