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Readers have discovered Cambridge News is available online first thing on Thursday morning, website statistics for March show. The www.cambridgenews.nz front page was the most visited with nearly 20 per cent of all visits last…

Waka Kotahi has the go ahead to continue planning for a roundabout to deal with a nightmare intersection. The Environment Court has approved its proposal to replace the T-intersection on State Highway 1 at Piarere…

3 April Update – Andrew Brown was today appointed Te Ara Wai Governance Committee chair. An earlier version of the story in print below jumped the gun and suggested he had already been appointed. The…

Cambridge’s Bill Robinson will soon step into a pivotal Rotary International role that will have been two full years in the planning. On July 1 of 2021 and 2022 respectively, Bill was named Rotary’s District…

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…