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Caught in limbo

For more than a decade, Waikato-King Country farmers have lived with the uncertainty of Plan Change 1. Mary Anne Gill was at Mystery Creek to…

Take a seat…

A popular picnic spot in Kihikihi has been revamped with community help. Broken seats on the corner of Lyon and Leslie St, outside Christ Church,…

It’s a wrap for Xavier

Te Awamutu’s Xavier Tapp has been crowned  inaugural New Zealand Sign and Display Association young signee of the year. The 26-year-old from Alexandra Images starred…

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Sports fall, Hautapu wins

Hamilton Marist put paid to any hopes of a Breweries Shield Waipā final in Waikato club rugby on Saturday. The Hamilton club chalked up a…

Sports celebrate home win

Te Awamutu notched up a 36-19 over Morrinsville at Albert Park in the premier men’s Breweries Shield division – on a day when another match…

Tate sets sights on Brisbane

Te Kawa-based Tate Burdon is 12 – and he is already looking forward to his third BMX World Championships. New Zealand has lined up 285…

Lift, hold… and gold

Waipā powerlifter Delwyn Evans, 62, overcame adversity to win gold at the IPF (International Powerlifting Federation) World Bench Press Championships in Warsaw, Poland last month….

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Expect government to act

The release of the Environment Court decisions on Plan Change 1 has left many farmers and rural communities wondering what comes next. Read more

The Lempriere story

Close to midnight on July 13, 1918, Anne Aubin left her sister Jane Lempriere’s room.  Jane, 88, had been bedridden for some years. Among the…

Colossal breakups

Many years ago I had my time living in Perth. A lack of jobs in New Zealand drove much of my graduating year to Australia,…

Disrupting the chain

In 2025, Cambridge was reported as having one of the highest per-capita cocaine usage rates in New Zealand according to wastewater drug testing data. In…