Waipā riders were to the fore at last weekend’s national BMX champs in Tauranga. Cambridge’s Leila Walker and North Harbour’s Rico Bearman claimed the overall elite honours – both also had under-23 Union Cycliste Internationale…
Waipā riders were to the fore at last weekend’s national BMX champs in Tauranga. Cambridge’s Leila Walker and North Harbour’s Rico Bearman claimed the overall elite honours – both also had under-23 Union Cycliste Internationale…
A lawyer suspended after apparently losing his moral compass is Takena Stirling, Waipā’s first Māori ward councillor. The Law Society posted details of the suspension on its website yesterday (Thursday 16 March). That caught Waipā…
Audit New Zealand has rapped Waipā District Council over the knuckles in its annual Management Report for approving expenses to the chief executive and mayor without the proper authority. Update Friday March 17: Some sentences…
Waipā residents generate around 500kg of waste each per year, about the weight of a mid-sized polar bear. But at least half of that shouldn’t end up in landfill at all and mayor Susan O’Regan…
A second controversial decision made by a Waipā District Council independent commissioner in favour of several hectares of kiwifruit shelter belts in Parallel Road is to be appealed. Alan Withy last week granted two applications…
Shakespeare comes to Te Awamutu on Friday. Te Awamutu College will host the Waikato Regional Sheilah Winn Shakespeare festival – and it will be the first opportunity students have had to gather face to face…
Waipā’s spatial plan engagement programme has become a victim of its own success and the team behind it is under pressure to provide individual presentations before feedback closes in 11 days. Strategy manager Kirsty Downey…
From better public transport services to improved biodiversity, hundreds of Waipā residents have shared their views on what is most important to them for the future of the district. Waipā District Council has received more…
Thirty women took the opportunity to hear from 10 successful female authors by enjoying a girls’ night in the Cambridge Library on Friday in celebration of International Women’s Day and Authors Month. The Waikato authors…
On 19 February 1975 Ngāuruhoe, our most active volcano at the time, produced one of the more violent recent eruptions in Aotearoa. The seven-hour event launched an ash plume of pulverized rock and hot gases…
