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Hamilton vandals are laying waste to the city’s scooter fleet, with up to eight vehicles per week being destroyed, according to a company spokeswoman. The revelation emerged at a Hamilton City Council meeting where Lauren Mentjox, Lime NZ’s public affairs manager, addressed the meeting via audio-visual link to speak about establishing a new fee structure for personal hire devices in the city. “It’s been a really difficult year for us,” she said. “In Hamilton we are seeing a really...

Kelly Hodel/stuff A planned workshop for "fellow patriots and liberty lovers" at Hamiltons Western Community Centre was cancelled on Wednesday. A conspiracy theorist barred from a Hamilton community centre met with a handful of supporters at a Hamilton pub on Wednesday night, arguing he shouldn’t be censored by Waikato’s “thought police”. Mark Thompson was due to host a public meeting at Western Community Centre on Wednesday evening for a nationwide speaking tour called “Beyond Polit...

MARK TAYLOR/Stuff They might be mostly empty now, but the Hamilton Gardens car park is frequently full of cars. Will there be as many if the Hamilton City Council starts charging $5 to park there? Visitors to the Hamilton Gardens could soon have to pay $5 to park their cars there each time they visit. The pay-for-your-park proposal – formulated and moved by councillors Dave Macpherson and Maxine van Oosten at a meeting on Thursday – is one of a host of overtures the Hamilton City Council w...