Housing is such a significant issue for Waipā that the newly-elected council has escalated its importance by establishing a new housing sub-committee. The decision was made at this week’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee and…
Housing is such a significant issue for Waipā that the newly-elected council has escalated its importance by establishing a new housing sub-committee. The decision was made at this week’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee and…
The first step towards changing 125.3 hectares of land in Hautapu from rural to industrial has started ahead of schedule. The land is part of Waipā council’s C10 growth cell and is intended for industrial…
“Education has always been a core purpose,” Jim Mylchreest says of Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain. So it was fitting that at the opening of the $846,000 Manu Korokii Education Centre on the maunga last week the…
This week I have some good news stories to share. The first started with a simple traffic stop. Some people think that traffic policing has a narrow focus, but this is not the case. All…
Opposition leader Chris Luxon has told business owners a National-led government would respond better to their needs, shrink wastage and seek wider global connections. He told those at last Thursday’s Cambridge Chamber of Commerce lunch…
Cambridge Autumn Festival’s iconic Main Street Carnival has secured funds so it can go ahead next month. Organisers of the 10 day long festival feared they would have to cancel the carnival when they failed…
We Say This is the new view from on high of rural Waipā. These shade covers block views at ground level – and for that reason residents across the district are up in arms as…
If an independent commissioner approves a retrospective land use consent for a giant kiwifruit orchard at 582 Parallel Road in Ōhaupō, Nick Jennings says everyone in the district is “doomed”. He and his family will…
A Cambridge student is using spare time ahead of her Wintec classes resuming by helping collect donations for victims of the Auckland floods. Charlotte Peake and her sister Mikaela are collecting items daily to deliver…
New Zealand’s annual inflation rate for 2022 was announced last week. It was 7.2 per cent, the same as it had been for the year to September, 2022. The Reserve Bank had forecast 7.5 per…
