Building better trauma care

When Grant Christey left Waikato to study medicine, he never imagined he would return home and spend the next two decades helping reshape trauma care for almost a million New Zealanders. Born in Te Awamutu,…

If there is one thing this fast-tracked local government reform process has shown, it is that nobody likes being told to reorganise in three months. With just three days until the Government’s August 9 deadline…

For all the debate about council structures, one word keeps resurfacing: localism. That was the clear message from a public forum at Waikato University on the Government’s Head Start proposals. Structure matters less than people’s…

Waipā councillors have thrown their support behind further work on a western Waikato catchment-based unitary authority after being told a single Waikato-wide council is unlikely to meet government criteria. Read more

Leila Ahlers went to the Waipā Community Careers Expo thinking about her future and came away even more convinced the trades could be for her. The 17-year-old Te Awamutu College Year 13 student spent time…

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 hear what two senior ministers had to say about its…

A feature story on Arapuni Dam’s hidden past was the most read post on the Te Awamutu News website last month. College students bringing the story of racial integration in the 1960s came in second…

Waipā’s biggest infrastructure project has been handed over with a simple but heartfelt request. “Please take great care of the baby.” Read more Harry Wilson, Waikato-Tainui, Waters manager Karl Pavlovich, Taiporutu Hauraki of Ngāti Haua…

A catchment-based model for local government reform has emerged as a contender in the Waikato, and early public feedback suggests growing interest in splitting the region along river lines. Read more

Questions over rising rates and long-awaited roading projects were put to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis at Fieldays last week, focusing on what comes next for fast-growing Waikato communities. Read more