Council is dressing up its main building with two stunning balloon-shaped banners to set the tone in the city for the Balloons Over Waikato festival. Economic development chair Ewan Wilson says Balloons Over Waikato is one of the city's icon events and we can create a real festival atmosphere working together. "Council is laying the challenge to other Hamilton businesses to follow our le... more...

Claudelands Park grass within the oval pathway has been sprayed in preparation for reshaping and re-sowing. Project supervisor Greg Leigh says the area will be laser-levelled before it is re-sown about mid-April "Despite the major landscaping being completed last year, the time was not right to establish turf grass. Once we have killed off the infestation of summer grasses and weeds, we ... more...

Hamilton City Council's kerbside recycling operation has begun well, based on the first six months of collection statistics. Hamilton residents have made a solid start in the way they have embraced the 'Sort it Out' kerbside recycling. During the first six months 1400 tonnes of recyclable materials (glass, plastic, aluminium and steel) were collected by way of recycling crates. In addition... more...

Members of the Waikato Agritech Cluster were last night treated to the unveiling of the first Waikato Agritech Innovation Awards. Cluster spokesperson and Hamilton City Council economic development executive Paul Barlow says the awards created a lot of excitement at the unveiling. "As a cluster we have worked on producing appropriate awards to showcase the region's unique strengths in ag... more...

Yesterday evening [Thursday, circa 5:30pm] a man in his early twenties had his right upper arm seriously injured by two dogs, which are owned by his flatmate. Animal Care and Control manager Marion Peck arrived on the scene within 15 minutes of the police alerting Council of the attack. Two policemen, one armed, were on the scene providing extra security, however, the dogs had been secur... more...

Waikato Stadium is to host its first concert when Summer Jam comes to town on Saturday, 15 March. Stadiums manager Mark Christie says this is a good chance to showcase the stadium's great amphitheatre atmosphere and will likely lead to more concerts. "This is an exciting opportunity to continue to grow the stadium's reputation nationally as an event venue. Last year we set up at Wespac Park, b... more...