A six-decade old ski club is preparing a wake after learning its lease on Lake Karāpiro won’t be renewed. The Brooklyn Water Ski Club has been at the Taumatawiiwii Reserve since the early 1960s, but…
A six-decade old ski club is preparing a wake after learning its lease on Lake Karāpiro won’t be renewed. The Brooklyn Water Ski Club has been at the Taumatawiiwii Reserve since the early 1960s, but…
A cash flow crisis could force the closure of Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari by the end of August. “Prior to Wednesday we would be looking at six weeks before we were going to shut up shop,”…
Thirty years ago, a young dairy industry reporter, newly transferred from the King Country, covered her first Fieldays. The News senior writer Mary Anne Gill was back at Mystery Creek today and filed her thoughts….
Just before 6pm on Saturday, June 8, a blue Plymouth rumbles up to the Sir Don Rowlands Event Centre at Lake Karāpiro. Isla Gerrand, Amy Wright and Jess Stewart climb out of the 50-year-old car…
Scout leaders learned how to build emergency shelters in Pirongia Forest Park recently. The leaders, kaiarahi or mentors, were challenged to build emergency shelters from material found lying on the bush floor. While trampers should…
Farmers will address the critical challenges facing the rural community at this year’s National Agricultural Fieldays. Fieldays has partnered with Federated Farmers to launch a Rural Advocacy Hub at the southern hemisphere’s biggest agricultural event,…
Beef and dairy farmers don’t typically work together, but that will soon change if Bob Thomson gets his way. Thomson, an Agfirst agribusiness consultant of 50 years’ experience, is leading a project he hopes will…
A set of heritage panels revealing the backstory to Cambridge’s Lakewood development are delighting both locals and visitors. Finishing touches to the panels went in last month, brought to this point by a group keen…
Smile and wave – that was the take home message bicycle retailer Justin Bax gave the women who attended a women’s’ bike maintenance course last week. “It’s across the board really for blokes and girls,”…
Waste water, carbon emissions, river pipeline and roading changes were some of the issues covered at Fonterra Hautapu’s annual meeting with its community last month. All bar a couple of seats at the factory’s training…
