Local Opinion

“Volcano spewing smoke” is my least favourite volcano headline phrase. Why? While the term ‘spewing’ is not my favourite, volcanoes just do not emit smoke (excluding when hot volcanic rocks and lava flows set things…

Picture a millpond on a summer’s evening. The last of the day’s sunlight angles through the low hanging leaves and sparkles on the water. The light catches a strand of a spider’s web wafting through…

High inflation, rising interest rates and storm damage to roading mean Waikato District Council might have to lift rates for the coming year as high as double the 3.5% rise anticipated back in 2021. The…

I love a good action movie, and if they have an eruption or some other geological disaster as a plot line I am in. With field work at Mount Doom (Ngāuruhoe) last week and making…

This week I attended facilitator training for the Loves Me Not programme which will be delivered to  Year 12 students later this month. The programme was  developed following the murder of Sophie Elliott by her…

I am writing these words in the early morning dawn of the first morning after retarding the clocks – a still morning that I suspect will herald a cool day. One of those mornings when…

By Pastor Ken Keyte, Cambridge Baptist Church During our recent church services at Cambridge Baptist we have been taking a few minutes to hear someone from our congregation share their faith story. We have heard…

When you turn on the hot tap in the kitchen in our house, you can fill up our common or garden watering can with cold water before it gets hot. That’s just over 5 litres….

The day this comes out I will be in the field with PhD student Amilea Sork, looking at huge rocks that were violently thrown out of the Ngāuruhoe crater during the 1950s and 1970s eruptions….

Art and Sport were well and truly represented this weekend as Cambridge was busy with residents and visitors enjoying the very popular and exciting Autumn Festival, the Maadi Cup regatta and street parade and the…