Every time you turn around these days, somewhere, someone is being caught doing something they shouldn’t be doing. Age and gender are irrelevant, social status doesn’t matter, and we, the newspaper readers and taxpayers shrug…
Every time you turn around these days, somewhere, someone is being caught doing something they shouldn’t be doing. Age and gender are irrelevant, social status doesn’t matter, and we, the newspaper readers and taxpayers shrug…
The signposting patrol of the Auckland Automobile Association made a tour of the King County and in addition to ordinary maintenance work, direction and danger signposts were erected and roads inspected and sketched. The patrol…
It has been another busy and productive week for King Country police, with staff responding to a wide range of incidents and making a number of arrests across the district. During a vehicle stop between…
There is no transport link more important to us in the King Country than State Highway 3. The same applies to Taranaki. State Highway 3 is its lifeline to the north. The most vulnerable stretch…
Recent councillor engagement across the Waikato and King Country has reinforced a simple but increasingly urgent point: if we are serious about good decision-making, we need more time on the ground and less time in…
The government has given councils three months to come up with plans to amalgamate, or else. The “or else’ is where the central government makes decisions for communities unable to come up with reasonable solutions….
After a gruelling six hour drive home from Northland one weekend, we dragged ourselves out of the car, climbed the stairs to our front door, and sighed with relief. We’d made it home. After a…
King Country police have seen an increase in vehicle thefts across both Te Kuiti and Ōtorohanga in recent weeks and are urging the community to remain vigilant. A vehicle was reported stolen from a residential…
Last week I saw a comparison of petrol prices between service stations in the King Country, and 40 cents a litre difference was quoted in towns barely 100km apart. Then I noted this morning the…
The sound of a bump at the foot of a cliff confirmed the worst fears of Mat Walton, Wesley Hackett and Harry Pearce, labourers who were working on the Awakino Valley Road in October 1915….
