By Luke East A new parkour course, aimed to provide 12- to 17-year-olds with something exciting and physical to do, is be built near the Te Awamutu skate park. Parkour involves traversing obstacles in a…
By Luke East A new parkour course, aimed to provide 12- to 17-year-olds with something exciting and physical to do, is be built near the Te Awamutu skate park. Parkour involves traversing obstacles in a…
About $80,000 in funding for artistic, musical or other creative pursuits in Waipā became available when the Creative Communities scheme opened for community arts activities on October 1. Waipā District Council is opening the October round…
Little more than two months into the job as Cambridge Rotary president, Ian Grant is signalling an approach he hopes will increase diversity, enhance growth and reinforce core Rotary values. Internationally, those values include steering…
Another successful event in support of senior citizens was held at Cambridge Raceway on Monday. This global walk to celebrate the value of older people, organised once again by Cambridge’s advocate for seniors Florence Shearman, was held…
Fencourt Road is hardly Hollywood Boulevard, but it will be front and centre in two new films from one of the country’s top directors. Costa Botes, best known for his work with Peter Jackson on Lord…
Ground works have begun on a mixed-use development in Leamington which will become the third of its type in Cambridge but the first on the southern side of the Waikato River. The three-storey Village at Leamington – marketed…
Radio New Zealand, TVNZ and various print products were wowed by a release last week from Waipā District Council which announced a live-streamed meeting had attracted a huge following. “Almost 300,000 people from throughout the…
Waipā residents will end up subsidising other communities including neighbouring big city Hamilton under the government’s Three Waters Reform proposal, say district councillors. The News understands councillors, frustrated their communities will lose assets built up…
By Blair Voorend and Mary Anne Gill A bus every hour from 6am through to 7pm between Cambridge and Hamilton could be coming as early as next year in response to an increase in patronage….
Health vaccinators will go anywhere in Waipā to protect the community from Covid-19 in a strategy unveiled by Waikato District Health Board (DHB) this week. The DHB will mobilise teams to do vaccinations at events…
