Chris Gardner

Waipā District Council has been warned to expect negative feedback on its Economic Wellbeing Strategy after failing to engage with its commerce chambers. Te Awamutu ward councillor and former Te Awamutu Business Chamber chief executive Shane Walsh told a ... See more

Justin Bertrand has replaced Mike Pettit as principal of Cambridge Primary School. Bertrand, who has lived in Cambridge since 2008, applied for the job after Pettit was elected Waipā mayor and handed temporary leadership of the school over to his wife Nic... See more

Rookie Ōtorohanga mayor Rodney Dow hasn’t had time for media training – but he won praise for his television appearances in the wake of the storms. “I’ve never been so emotional in my life,” Dow said as he broke down in front of television cameras over th... See more

Ōtorohanga Museum called for help during its most desperate hour and the townsfolk answered. More than two dozen people rushed to the whare housing the treasured 13-metre Te Waonui o Tāne waka in Kakamutu after it became inundated with flood water from Ōt... See more

Nearly 60 homes in the Ōtorohanga district have been yellow stickered, preventing people from living in them, after they were inundated with flood waters or slips. Civil Defence duty controller Tony Quickfall said it would be “months and months and months... See more