Olympic rower Emma Twigg is using her sporting star power to help rev up support for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. The event, co-hosted in Aotearoa and Australia from July 20 to August 20,…
Olympic rower Emma Twigg is using her sporting star power to help rev up support for this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup. The event, co-hosted in Aotearoa and Australia from July 20 to August 20,…
The true story of a 70-foot longliner Andrea Gail – lost off Canada’s Grand Banks on October 29, 1991 – is told in the movie ‘Perfect Storm.’ The vessel was on day 40 of an…
On Tuesday of last week, I forewent my annual warm-coated pre-dawn visit to the Cambridge cenotaph to take part in a very simple yet moving gathering at our village in Lauriston Park. It was at…
‘…documentaries and tv shows can also be surprisingly inaccurate.’ Over the years I have responded to eruptions by giving information through social media and over 200 media interviews around the world. This has meant that…
‘…we are still showing net annual loss of indigenous biodiversity in our district.’ We have begun the process of updating our Long Term Plan starting with the community outcomes that will shape our focus. Our…
A Waipā Community safety officer is warning residents to be alert to a wave of scams. Mandy Merson says scammers are using a variety of tactics to snare people – and take their money or…
Just over $37,000 raised at last year’s Cambridge Christmas Festival has been distributed to 12 separate Waikato charitable organisations. Cambridge Christmas Festival Society president Deb Robinson said the figure was the highest for an annual…
Cambridge Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) is about to mark its 40th anniversary and those organising the knees-up want to hear from anyone associated with the bureau during that time. June 14 has been set aside…
Cambridge teenager Jodie Blackwood has been selected in a nine-strong group of promising cyclists to compete in the UCI Track Cycling Junior World Championships in South America in August. The eight endurance riders and one…
A motley convoy of vehicles completed a journey of around 600km last week when they delivered tonnes of hay and sileage to Napier for distribution to cyclone-ravaged farmers in Hawke’s Bay. The round trip was…
