Local Opinion

This morning, I was one of a group waiting outside St Patrick’s Catholic church ready to begin our annual Walk of Witness, an annual event when the congregations of St Patrick’s and St John’s, walk…

As we are well aware, volcanoes erupt molten rock and volcanic gases released as magma rises from deep within the Earth. But what about mud volcanoes? Like their magmatic cousins, mud volcanoes can also be…

Maintenance needed I think maintenance at the Waipā War Memorial Park is all that is needed for the park seats and chain link fence, not replacement (The News, April 10).  They are very well made…

Andrew Linton had just been promoted to corporal and hoped to go one better when he wrote to his parents, as Meghan Hawkes recalls in A Snip in Time from 110 years ago. “It is…

I hope you had a good long weekend. As usual last week was a busy week in Te Awamutu. As a result of a social media post regarding an incident at a supermarket, police had…

Tēnei te Pō! Tēnei te Pō! Tēnei te Pō! Te Pō-uriuri, te Pō-tangotango, te Pō-i-oti-atu. This is the Night, this is the Night, this is the Night! The darkest Night, the deepest Night, the Night…

Tom the ostler had caught a cold and although it knocked him round a bit for the next 10 days, by Sunday 19 December 1897, the 61-year-old was up and about his usual work.  Tom…

There is no doubt that social media has become an integral part of life, especially for young people. These platforms certainly offer opportunities to connect, to build communities and to share news. However, over the…

Waikato Regional Council (WRC) recently approved a submission on the government’s proposed new wastewater environmental performance standards that are intended to be rolled out across New Zealand. Taumata Arowai is the water services regulator for…

In late 2020—amidst a world full of distractions—you might have missed the eruption of La Soufrière, a volcano on the island nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean. This wasn’t an unknown…