St Peters Cambridge student Charlisse Leger-Walker has won All-American honours with her college basketball team. Leger-Walker – who features in a Waipā youth awards story – has become the first player from the Washington Cougars…
St Peters Cambridge student Charlisse Leger-Walker has won All-American honours with her college basketball team. Leger-Walker – who features in a Waipā youth awards story – has become the first player from the Washington Cougars…
Faith was front and centre of Margaret Vosper’s life. It steeled her against tragedy, became her family’s life-blood and was a beacon for decades spent serving others. Stephanie Vosper, one of her three surviving children,…
Two special dogs whose lives are intertwined through veterinary procedures met face-to-face for the first time recently – one a life-saving blood donor greyhound called Disco, and the other an ailing labradoodle called Skylar, who…
By Peter Matthews I’ve received a few emails recently in response to this column, all so far disagreeing with what I say. People send me long letters full of references to scientific ‘facts’ designed to…
A novel plan to make Cambridge road safer has arrived with fluorescent hit sticks and polka dots. The response in the News to date has been less than positive. Below, we hear from a Cambridge writer…
New research is shedding light on the impact of Covid-19 Alert Levels on injury-related hospital admissions across the Midland region and how people were injured during lockdown. The study by the Midland Trauma System (MTS),…
A Waipā District Councillor has delivered a public message to the community after itemizing a litany of abusive messages posted on social media platforms. And she has exposed the vicious abuse which has become the…
Former New Plymouth mayor Andrew Judd, a major voice in the move to enable Māori wards to be created without being hooked by a referendum, says Waipā District Councillors should be leading change rather than…
From pink and blue polka dots and orange hit sticks to a one-way street and pop-up cycleway, the Streets for People project is turning heads. It’s a three-month trial aimed at making streets in Cambridge…
There is so much to be excited about, right now. Our new passenger rail service, Te Huia, is due to launch at the beginning of April and will, I believe, transform transport between Waikato and…
