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Hamilton city councillors have allowed Auckland a big splash of water, but says the Te Huia train must be let into the super-city as part of the deal.
Hamilton is embracing te reo Māori for its new street names, but making its use mandatory would be "arbitrary woke-ism" one city leaders says.
The Hamilton City Council has backed off from calling for casinos to pay 40 per cent of the profits from pokie machines to the community.
Unprecedented growth across Waipā and Hamilton is being blamed for the commuter gridlock which sees traffic heading north into the city backed up as far as Tamahere most mornings. The daily logjam has prompted top-level talks on ways to ease traffic congestion between Cambridge and Hamilton, with a dedicated bus lane just south of the city on the cards. Christel Yardley/Stuff Amanda Till works as an event manager at the University of Waikato. She starts work just after 9am to avoid the heavy morning traffic between Cambridge and Hamilton. And even the prospect of a congestion charge isn...
Councils across the country are debating the issue after the Government introduced the Local Electoral (Māori Wards and Māori Constituencies) Amendment Bill. The bill upholds council decisions to create Māori wards and removes the ability of public polls triggered by petitions to overturn such moves. Councils wanting to establish Māori wards in time for the 2022 election have to make such a resolution by May 21. Christel Yardley/Stuff Hamilton City Council’s elected members will debate whether to introduce Māori wards at a meeting on May 19. Te Aho said Waikato-Tainui is a “massiv...