Olympic champs Olympic champs: Olympic champion Lucy Spoors has been taking a well-deserved break after winning a Gold medal in Paris, spending time with 2 year old son Rupert and also tying the knot. However,…
Olympic champs Olympic champs: Olympic champion Lucy Spoors has been taking a well-deserved break after winning a Gold medal in Paris, spending time with 2 year old son Rupert and also tying the knot. However,…
The number of kiwi raised at Maungatautari in Waipā and sent to new homes has reached almost 350. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the re-introduction of kiwi on Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari – four…
When customers of a certain age wander into Cambridge Hospice Waikato Shop and into the retro section, their eyes rise longingly at the posters and memorabilia on the wall. “They’re not for sale,” manager Justine…
Waipā’s northern neighbours are wooing the council in an apparent effort to get the local authority to join their water services company. Discussions were held behind closed doors in Te Awamutu yesterday (Wednesday) between Hamilton,…
Cambridge’s Thelma Hubbard was just a touch fashionably late for her 100th birthday party last week, and nobody minded one whit. That’s because her centennial celebration should have taken place around her actual birthday on…
Cambridge High School year nine students got the message loud and clear from principal Greg Thornton at their pōwhiri last week. “Realise your potential,” he urged the 360 plus nervous looking young people sitting quietly…
It’s been more than 23 years since champion thoroughbred racehorse Ethereal thundered down Flemington Racecourse’s final straight on November 6, 2001, streaking past Give The Slip in a thrilling finish to win the Melbourne Cup….
Parlez-vous français? Perhaps not, but hundreds of locals now do thanks in part to a decade of classes run by a couple of women passionate about the language. February marks the start of a new…
Rod Beare thought nothing of it when there was a knock on his front door about 10.30pm. Somebody must need help, he thought, and sure enough it was a young man who said he had…
Tuesday 4 February Two youths will appear in the Tauranga Youth Court tomorrow (Wednesday) charged with two burglaries and two unlawful takes of a motor vehicle. Police executed a search warrant in Tauranga earlier today…
