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When St Andrew’s Church verger Ian Dunn got the go-ahead to hold a special craft fair on April 29 in support of the Cyclone Gabrielle recovery, nothing could have prepared him for the response he…

Anne Wilkins has won the Cambridge Autumn Festival’s short story competition with Cracks – and today we publish it in fill. I hum as I walk to school while little cracks in the pavement try…

Anne Wilkins knows she must be doing something right after winning the Cambridge Autumn Festival Short Story competition. As she wiped away tears during a photo shoot with judges, former Waikato Times editor Venetia Sherson…

Among the many events in and around Cambridge last weekend was the Main Street Carnival and Art Market. Mary Anne Gill was there to soak up the atmosphere.  

When Sylvie Davies-Colley saw her brother Lansley stacking wood they had found on the roadside after Cyclone Gabrielle, she knew it would make a cracking photograph. The 9-year-old Cambridge Primary School student won the youth…

The latest $10.4 million investment in safer Waipā walking and cycling pathways is money well spent, says Transport minister Michael Wood. Speaking exclusively to The News at a celebration for the completion of a 65-kilometre…

A Waipā resident who spent a fortnight helping with the clean-up in Hawke’s Bay says shovels, spades and Bobcats are the items the communities need most. Colin Parkinson, who is part of Taskforce Kiwi, is…

Contracts worth $86 million – a record for the Waipā District Council – have been announced for a solar-powered wastewater treatment plant in Cambridge. Work on a three-year $100 million project is expected to start…

Waipā councillors were given a vivid illustration today of the rubbish residents put out for collection which is organic waste. They were served up for morning tea an example of largely food items rubbish contractors…