Local News

Getting into election mode 

It is election year – of the local kind. Like it or not we will all be bombarded with pamphlets, emails, door knockers – all of them wannabees driven to be seen at the large…

A man of mana and aroha 

Rev Canon Adrian Gover:  14.01.1936 – 03.07.2022 Rev Adrian Gover was last week described as a man who brought both ‘mana and aroha’ into the priesthood. Those words were expressed at Adrian’s funeral at St…

‘Fame’ at last for Bezzant  

Softball international Gaye Bezzant is to become the 41st inductee into Cambridge’s Sports Walk of Fame. The announcement was made this week – at the same time six inductees were announced for Te Awamutu’s Walk…

‘Coming out’ questions 

Bex Fraser says “coming out” might be easier these days, but there’s still plenty of people who worry about reactions from family, friends or workmates. “I came out as bisexual and non-binary in the Waikato…

Waipā author fills a gap

Imagine living on a wild and windy bird sanctuary in New Zealand. Cambridge author Libby Kirkby-McLeod did too, so she wrote about it putting Eugene, his brother Miles and his parents on the island for…

Expressway Hamilton section opens

The weather that dumped heavy rain at the official opening of the Waikato Expressway Hamilton section on Tuesday delayed the public from using it until last night (Thursday). By 9am today (July 15) the numbers…

Three Waters claim withdrawn

Waipā District Council has pulled a sentence from a Three Waters reform media release it sent out last week and admitted the sentence was wrong. The release claimed people who do not take part in…

Cambridge bridge, what bridge?

Transport minister Michael Wood says he has not been briefed about the possibility of a third bridge in Cambridge over the Waikato River. He was just as coy on the possibility of the Waikato Expressway…

Meating demand

Te Awamutu’s award-winning butchery Magills has more than trebled its capacity while providing the meat in some of the country’s best known brands. The butchery recently opened a new $2 million plus facility, which neighbours…

Caught by surprise

Four busloads of Australian tourists arrived in Cambridge on Sunday, but the town didn’t roll out the red carpet for the first overseas visitors in over two years – because most residents were unaware they…

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