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UPDATE 4:24pm The boat belonging to a fisherman who has been reported missing near Whangapoua has been located. At 2pm a private vessel came across the missing boat named Tubby, approximately 24 nautical miles off the coast of Whitianga. No one was located on board and the boat is in the process of […]
NZ Transport Agency advises State Highway 25 South of Coromandel Town will be closed during the day on 14 December. It will be closed at Kereta Hill, south of Coromandel, from 10am to 3pm to recover a vehicle. The vehicle went off the road just below the Manaia Road lookout and the highway needs to […]
Just in from NZTA is notice of two closures of SH25. This information relates to the Hikuai Bailey bridge which is to close to all traffic, except emergency services, from 19 December till 22 December in the evenings from 8pm till 5am, hopefully this will not impact any of Santa’s preparation! The closure is to […]
Fletcher Concrete and Infrastructure Limited, the corporate arm of Firth Industries, has been convicted and fined in the Hamilton District Court following a prosecution taken by Waikato Regional Council. The case followed a council inspection in June 2020 at the Firth Whangamata concrete batching site. Council staff found a pump emptying liquid contaminant from the […]
Welcome to the fantastic world of a co-ordinated drone light show. Drone light shows are performed by illuminated, synchronized, and choreographed groups of drones that arrange themselves into various aerial formations. Almost any image can be recreated in the sky by a computer program that turns graphics into flight commands and communicates them to the […]
Christopher Luxon was elected unopposed this week as the new leader of the National Party and 5 days later here he is visiting our district. He’s quickly into the new role and has been out and about visiting different places around New Zealand every day in the job so far. Today he was in Thames […]
UPDATED 5pm 2/12/2021 The 1pm numbers today did not include the confirmation of this case that we expected. We raised a question with the Waikato DHB who have now responed. They have said in a statement to CFM that “the Public Health Unit are aware of a case isolating in Whitianga who had relocated […]
Police are responding to two seperate incidents in our wider broadcast area, In Tuakau there are reports of a man with a knife around the main shopping area. No other details are known at this stage. An incident is also underway in Fairfield, Hamilton and no details are known but the public have been asked […]
Planned work to repair the State Highway 25 Hikuai River bridge, south of Tairua, has been halted after discovering what was planned is inadequate and more larger plates need fitting. As an interim step, the bridge will have additional asphalt surfacing laid, which is scheduled to take place tomorrow (Wednesday). Traffic will be stopped in […]
The new Protection Framework comes into effect this Friday. It brings with it many changes and we will try to summarise these here. Initially the Waikato including Hauraki/Coromandel will be on colour orange and this is summarised in the table below. Orange is used when there’s increasing community transmission of COVID-19 and face coverings are […]
