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A Karāpiro cruise

American cruise ship tourists Joy Littleton and Lori Ionnitiu saw the excursions available to them when the Seven Seas Explorer docked in Tauranga on Sunday,…

Clam cash confirmed

Regional councillors have voted to allocate more than $400,000 to buy equipment for its fight against golden clams. Corbicula fluminea was found in the Waikato…

Celebrating our wetlands

A collaborative event at Lake Rotopiko on February 2 and involving several organisations in and around Te Awamutu will mark World Wetlands Day 2025. The…

O’Brien returns to wananga

Evie O’Brien is returning to Te Wānanga o Aotearoa as kaiwhakatere chief executive after 10 years. O’Brien will be welcomed later this month, after leaving…

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Thousands queue for Tryathlon

A post-event review will be held to work out how to improve access and transit times to a huge competition at a Cambridge venue which…

‘It’s truly magnificent’

They say Ōhaupō’s new stables match anything in Kentucky. Mary Anne Gill checks out Breckon Farm. A Waikato horse breeding legend has described Breckon Farm’s…

Now ear this

Waipā boxer Floyd Masson took to social media to show off a cauliflower ear after his points loss to Polish boxer  Mateusz Masternak last weekend….

Bowlers ride to the rescue

Bowlers have raised $1100 for Te Awamutu’s Riding for the Disabled organisation. Kihikihi Bowling Club’s latest tournament was a departure from the norm, in that…

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Cars, cows and miracle cures

Travellers desiring to inspect the site of the big hydro-electric works at Arapuni had not experienced the best facilities for making the motor journey between Te Awamutu and Putāruru owing…

Life is what you make it

The early settlers of our region remain significant to our history and our future. Māori landed in Kawhia harbour and many travelled across the hills…

The Boxing Day tsunami

This time 20 years ago, countries around the Indian Ocean were reeling from the grief and horror of one of the deadliest events in modern…

The misleading ‘one in 100 flood’

This week I had a chat with Joshua Sargent with the Environmental Research Institute at the University of Waikato. He is an environmental spatial scientist,…