Bus numbers keep rising
Bus use in and around Te Awamutu continues to climb. Patronage on the Te Awamutu–Kihikihi service rose nearly 14 per cent over the past year. Waikato Regional Council figures show passenger numbers on the route…
Bus use in and around Te Awamutu continues to climb. Patronage on the Te Awamutu–Kihikihi service rose nearly 14 per cent over the past year. Waikato Regional Council figures show passenger numbers on the route…
Two women with long careers in the public sector feature on the covers of Good Local Media’s business publications this month. Former Hamilton mayor Paula Southgate appears in the Waikato Business News, while Lake Tarawera…
Paula Southgate has begun a new chapter after more than two decades shaping local government. The former Hamilton mayor and Waikato Regional Council chair has taken up a part‑time role as a senior fellow at…
Mary Anne Gill reveals how Kaipaki Dairies is reinventing New Zealand’s milk market with a farm-to-bottle approach that champions purity, freshness, and sustainability by delivering whole milk the way nature intended. On a lush 200-hectare…
Reconciliation and partnership – these ideas have been discussed in Aotearoa for some time as we consider what a true treaty partnership looks like. Soon it will be Waitangi Day which marks the beginning of…
Just before the curtain lifted on To The Stars / Ki Ngā Whetū – the three-day showcase that would officially open the Waikato Regional Theatre in Hamilton last week – Michael Gilling shed a tear….
National Party MP Barbara Kuriger has confirmed she intends to seek re-election for a fifth term representing the Taranaki-King Country electorate, despite rumours suggesting otherwise. Speaking ahead of the party’s caucus meeting in Christchurch this…
A story about former Waipā posties Danny and Ian Kennedy abandoning their breach‑of‑contract damages claim against NZ Post was the top read online article on the Te Awamutu News website last year. Firefighters tackling an…
A polished black granite monument erected in memory of Patrick Corboy, a former Waipā County chairman, featured in a Hamilton West cemetery tour undertaken by historian Lyn Williams last month. Corboy, who died in 1900…
From courts to classrooms, farms to playing fields, Waikato figures earn national recognition in the New Year’s Honours List, reports senior writer Mary Anne Gill. Otorohanga, Te Kuiti and Pirongia recipients are Coral Shaw, Tom…
