The last WCC meeting of 2024 highlighted how profoundly under-qualified many of our councillors are. An amendment proposed by Councillor Calvert to try and keep the rates increase below 10% vs.

A motorcyclist has died in a crash near Feilding. Police were advised just before 8pm last night that a motorcycle had crashed on Kawakawa Road. The motorcyclist was found dead on the road.

A crash closed SH3 north of Whanganui for three hours today. NZTA reported the crash at 10.30, at Westmere north of the Blueskin Road intersection.

Hamilton mayor Paula Southgate will leave politics in October, saying it’s time to make room for younger, emerging leaders. Southgate was elected mayor in 2019 and was the Waikato’s only ...