The proposed $33 million Te Ara Wai land wars museum in Te Awamutu would create 20 jobs and generate $1.985 million a year, a Waipā District Council-commissioned report shows. The News obtained the Economic impact…
The proposed $33 million Te Ara Wai land wars museum in Te Awamutu would create 20 jobs and generate $1.985 million a year, a Waipā District Council-commissioned report shows. The News obtained the Economic impact…
He may have played his cards close to his chest, but his success has reached the national stage. Te Awamutu College Year 12 student Jacob Chetwin’s company – Liquidation – is the Waikato Young Enterprise…
For two years Arthur Uden put his back pain down to arthritis, until an MRI scan confirmed the worst – he had cancer. The diagnosis was bittersweet as he and wife Judy had just celebrated…
Surplus down Waipā District Council adopted its annual report this week and the Statement of Comprehensive Revenue and Expense shows an operating surplus of just $1.1 million, lower than the budgeted $45.2 million and the…
Te Awamutu features prominently in the revamped Waikato Business News out this week. We speak exclusively to Waipā’s first female mayor Susan O’Regan on her national political aspirations and report on the next stage of…
Three elected Waipā district members of Parliament have been left off a story board in Garden Place, Hamilton which honours Waikato’s female MPs. The omission of Katherine O’Regan, Louise Upston and Barbara Kuriger is even more…
Waipā residents recognise the positive value tourism brings to the district but are still concerned about the rubbish, parking and congestion problems it causes them. International visitor expenditure in the district was up 237 per…
Te Awamutu College’s Ashlee Coldrick has been chosen to attend the latest Pacific Student Leaders Programme. The 18-year-old Year 13 student – who has been a deputy house captain, headed the college’s ball committee and…
Craig, ‘Haggis’, O’Hanlon knows exactly where his love of classic cars comes from. One of his earliest memories is of his dad – an automotive spray painter – painting a client’s 1936 Willys Coupe. “That…
Waipā District Council staff are not ruling out major renewals or Central Business District street improvements in Te Awamutu – but they won’t get on the road this financial year, the Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board…
