Local Opinion

I am about 18,000 km way from home alongside a lava flow that destroyed communities in 2021. Here in La Palma, in the Canary Islands off the coast of northern Africa, I am hearing very…

Waikato District Council has just adopted its annual plan for the year ahead and has managed to drop the average general rates increase to 11.9 per cent from the 13.75  per cent first proposed. Guided…

A big part of life is about getting prepared. One way or another, throughout our lives, we’re always in some sort of ‘preparation’ for the ‘next thing’. Think about that…from birth, to first words, first…

We had a wee hot spot of car crime in the Williams, Clare and Vogel streets last weekend and two burglaries in the last week elsewhere in Cambridge. One offender or group of offenders can…

In a BBC article, a colleague, Professor Matthew Watson, is warning of the dangers of tourism at Fuego – a twin volcano which erupted with deadly consequences in Guatemala in 2018. Watson stopped taking student…

Through most of the last year I have suffered with global osteo-arthritis so this column has not been high on my list of priorities! However over the last couple of weeks two special events in…

Every three years we – the whole nation – are subject to the nonsense put forward by council wannabees as to their suitability to govern the organisation that keeps our districts clean, warm, liveable and…

It is a great source of delight to me that we have things unique to us, which are exclusively our own – that is, things particular, or indigenous to New Zealand. I won’t attempt listing…

The Cambridge Community Board aims to act as a conduit between the community and Waipā District Council. Our role is to hear and understand the thoughts and opinions of those living in Cambridge and communicate…

They say a full moon has an impact on our mood. In emergency services we certainly seem to see an impact.  In the past week, the team have again had a busy time,  responding to…