Waipā looks set to become only the second council after Queenstown to use inclusionary zoning to address concerns around housing costs. Inclusionary zoning is a planning tool which compels developers to make a proportion of…
Waipā looks set to become only the second council after Queenstown to use inclusionary zoning to address concerns around housing costs. Inclusionary zoning is a planning tool which compels developers to make a proportion of…
The repainting of the 116-year-old Victoria Street Bridge in Cambridge has reached a major milestone this month, with work now at the halfway point. The project, which also includes carrying out minor maintenance, will help…
The lack of accountability and waning legitimacy of the United States Supreme Court should be of concern to New Zealand and the world, says Wellington-based academic, Dr Hayden Thorne. Speaking to a packed University of…
The Cambridge Sixes, one of the biggest bridge events in the country and one likely to attract over 30 teams of six players each, comes to town early next month. The full day event will…
Fencourt Hall’s administrative committee has reached desperation point, saying it will have to hand the building’s keys over to Waipā District Council if it can’t find new volunteers. The committee will hold a meeting at…
The country’s fourth largest gambling operator has taken issue with a Waipā District Council report which suggested community funding from pokie machines was going from the poor to the rich. Grassroots Trust, which operates 70…
Ongoing issues for Cambridge users of the Waikato Expressway, including the fire brigade, need ironing out so the next part of the design is fit for purpose, Taupō MP Louise Upston says. She was responding…
Every step they take… DoC’s kākāpō “policeman” Petrus Hedman will be watching them. The newest arrivals at Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari, four kākāpō from the deep south, will be constantly monitored as they adapt to their…
Cambridge’s fire chief has echoed readers’ concerns about the ongoing confusion around some street and road names in the town. Waipā District Council says it would only look at the issue if a petition was…
He’s done it again. In rising effortlessly to the occasion of his latest challenge this morning – this time all seven floors of it – Monty, Cambridge Riding for the Disabled’s (RDA) therapy pony, completed…
