One person has been taken into custody after being car spiked in Leamington this afternoon. At around 12:30pm, police were notified of a person escaping custody and assaulting two Corrections officers outside Waikato Hospital. The…
One person has been taken into custody after being car spiked in Leamington this afternoon. At around 12:30pm, police were notified of a person escaping custody and assaulting two Corrections officers outside Waikato Hospital. The…
November 22, 2024 – 4pm Statement from Te Pūkenga clarifying a part of this story: Wintec began engaging with staff on their change proposals from 21 October, this was two weeks before one of several…
Gabrielle Hill was named National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) dux and performing arts dux of St Peter’s Cambridge. The 17-year-old has lived in Cambridge all her life and formerly attended Cambridge Montessori Pre-School, St…
Far from being the stuff of nightmares, the leeches being bred in the Waikato on New Zealand’s only leech farm are highly valued medical miracles. Viv Posselt investigates. Maria and Robert Lupton have been breeding…
Pirongia School’s stompingly-good jump jammers won big at this month’s Jump Jam Nationals in Tauranga. Soon after winning the Year 7-8 Strictly Open division, the school’s ‘Bewitching Pirongia’ team heard it had scored the highest…
Riverlea Theatre has continued to draw on Waipā talent with its latest production – Flashdance – which opens a three week season on Saturday. Alex Smith who plays understudy to Andy Derby as Nick, and…
The setting up of this year’s Christmas tree marking the start of the Cambridge Altrusa Club’s second ‘Santa to a Senior’ was done in town on Saturday. Club members spent a few hours decorating the…
A new piece of interactive technology designed with diversional therapy and loads of enjoyment in mind is delighting residents at Cambridge Resthaven’s two care centres. The award-winning Omi Vista mobile interactive system has been in…
Waipā mayor Susan O’Regan and chief executive Steph O’Sullivan attended the World Business Forum’s two-day conference in Sydney, Australia last week. Organised by World of Business Ideas (WOBI) in major cities across the globe, the…
Grey Ormsby is buzzing because he did not listen to his father. A quarter of a century after Waitomo Group founder Desmond Ormsby advised his son Grey to exit the fuel supply industry the company…
