Well-used equipment in two Leamington playgrounds have been decommissioned for safety reasons following an independent safety audit across Waipā. The equipment did not meet New Zealand safety standards which represent fundamental minimum best practice in…
Social media has become an integral tool for owners of lost dogs and resulted in fewer pooches ending up in Waipā pounds. District Growth and Regulatory Services group manager Wayne Allan made the observation in…
With a mixture of sadness and nostalgia, Cambridge businesspeople Graeme and Elaine Haworth are selling two Duke St shops they’ve owned for more than 50 years. The buildings, 61 and 63 Duke St, are tenanted by Dante’s Fine Foods and Point Break Cambridge….
Waipā’s community facilities continue to be targets for the district’s undesirable vandals. Toilets at Bulmer’s Landing, a freedom camping site overlooking the Waikato River 20kms south of Karāpiro, have been closed for several weeks due…
Waipā’s District Plan is being put to the test again with an application for a non-complying activity in Taylor Street, Cambridge heading for a hearing later this month. The application, lodged in February this year…
A “plucky little bird with a mangled leg and twisted body” from Cambridge is set to become the first cockatiel to attempt to traverse the length of New Zealand on Te Araroa, a continuous 3000km…
Vaping has become an epidemic among Waipā youth, Cambridge High School deputy principal John McDonnell told district councillors this week. And councillors heeded his call for them to be leaders and limit the supply to…
A new district-wide naming policy could see Bryce streets in Cambridge and Kihikihi disappear and John Hewitt Drive in Maungatautari moved to Te Miro. Two submitters to the proposed Waipā District Council Naming Policy were…
The woman who brought La Leche League to New Zealand 54 years ago was an only child who admits she scarcely knew what a baby was before having five of her own. Scots-born…
Waikato MP Tim van de Molen has echoed joined the chorus of complaints over gang links to Government funding. It was “incomprehensible that $2.75 million has been allocated to them instead of to reputable agencies…
