A significant part of Waikato Regional Council’s catchment management programme involves helping landowners/managers to better manage erosion prone catchments, particularly in the steeper parts of the region. Loss of productive land in NZ hill country…
Weather warnings can be like Tacos. Living in the United States, a country that has a hurricane, and a tornado, and a winter storm season, I experienced my fair share of weather watches and warnings….
People look to many things for happiness, fulfilment – for peace and quiet, for daily necessities, wellbeing and prosperity. Whether from the government, local authorities, doctors, employers, teachers, the church, family… regardless of whatever we…
Starting with good news – great work by store staff and a quick response by police resulted in the arrest of a male at the Warehouse last week at the Warehouse. He was also identified…
Waipa District Council’s debt level on June 30, 2022, was $149.5 million. A year later it was $226 million, a rise of 51 per cent. By June it is projected to be $296.8 million, a…
This time in 1980 in the United States activity was increasing at Mount St Helens volcano, Washington. Several earthquakes were detected in mid-March, alerting scientists at the United States Geological Survey (USGS, the equivalent of…
Starting with good news, in mid-March police received a report of burglary at an industrial site. A male had cut a hole in a perimeter fence and entered to steal power tools and other items….
Last November, a guide was showing us communal toilets among Roman ruins in Ephesus. I’m glad I didn’t live in that era because I’d have been shut down with ‘stage fright’ sitting there, shoulder to…
Meghan Hawkes looks back to 1930 and reviews the stories making headlines in Waipā. Rabbits had spread extensively in the Waipā region and property owners were expected to exterminate them to the best of their…
Recently I wrote about living free from the pressure that drivenness and relentless striving puts us under, with the key being to find the source of true ‘rest’. A reader later confided how years of…
