The Cambridge Connections project is on a temporary hold following a fiery Waipā District Council committee meeting. The extent of the disagreement between councillors on the project’s working group was laid bare during Tuesday’s debate…
The Cambridge Connections project is on a temporary hold following a fiery Waipā District Council committee meeting. The extent of the disagreement between councillors on the project’s working group was laid bare during Tuesday’s debate…
Lights out A power cut left northern Cambridge residents in the dark at around midnight on Saturday. The cause was a fault on one of Waipā Network’s high voltage underground cables. Bus tour A Waipā…
Bus tour A Waipā District Council bus tour to Huntly to visit Opportunity Shops there and get a free cup of coffee is funded by the Ministry for the Environment’s Waste Disposal Levy which must…
Seventeen people from Waipā and King Country, including representatives from police, schools and a youth trust have completed a Youth Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Aotearoa workshop. The two-day training, held in Te Awamutu August…
Roosting pest birds at Lake Rotopiko near Ōhaupō are being given another incentive to move on and take their messy poo with them. Collaborative efforts involving Te Awamutu Rotary Club and the New Zealand Wetlands…
Pixie Stockman walks smiling from a health and wellbeing assessment at Kihikihi’s community hub. She consulted Te Kotahi Oranga Health and Wellness Centre student nurse Natasha To’o during the student-assisted clinic’s first visit to the…
Scammers have been active in Waipā and the King Country in recent weeks. Our sister paper the King Country News reported that a Te Kūiti woman was recently conned into providing bank details to a…
Waitomo Caves choir will host its first open day for this year at the end of the month at the Ōtorohanga Baptist church. And it is hoping to make up the needed balance of voices,…
Some working dogs must retire due to age or injuries. Some just never were cut out for farm life. Paul Charman reports on what happens next. Retired Working Dogs was founded more than 10 years…
An active King Country huntaway named Puzzle injured his carpal (wrist) joint at work and had to have a plate put in. But being very engergetic he broke the plate so he was facing either…
