Hamilton City News

Rescuers were hanging onto slim hopes Monday night that a man who tumbled into the Sacramento River when his canoe capsized somehow made it to shore.

Monday, 23 November 2009, 1:55 pm Press Release: City Care Ltd City Care and Hamilton City Council have celebrated the successful start of a new streets landscape maintenance services contract.

Transport lobby group the Campaign for Better Transport has launched a petition calling on the Government to support a commuter train service between Hamilton and Auckland.

Parents are being warned they can face court action after Hamilton police arrested a number of children and cautioned others following a series of incidents at the weekend.

Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 5:25 pm Press Release: Hamilton City Council Some unlikely spokesmen come to the city on their motorbikes next Thursday 27 November to spread the message that family violence is not OK in Hamilton.

Here are this week's "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" selections: Thumbs down to Hamilton City Council for refusing to listen to comments on Nov.

Friday, 13 November 2009, 2:21 pm Press Release: New Zealand Regional Fibre Group Media release 13 November 2009 More than 100 schools across the country have now been connected to ultra-fast fibre networks in what is being touted as a major boost for the spread of e-learning. The figure is a milestone for the New Zealand Regional Fibre Group, ...

Hamilton property values on the east of the Waikato River have risen more than those on the west over the last three years.

Scott Edward BeaversAll Chico E-R photos are available here. Here are several people being sought by the Glenn County Sheriff's Office.

A Hamilton drug and alcohol specialist has slammed the city's Alcohol Accord as "a sticking plaster for a problem that is bigger than most of us realise". Alcohol and Drug Community Support Trust director Stephen King said the accord signed between police, the Hamilton City Council, bar licensees and Health Waikato had failed to address the issue ...

The change in leadership that's about to occur on Hamilton City Council may set a precedent in the city's long history of governance.

Balloons Over Waikato organisers have withstood Hamilton City Council pressure to have Waikato's largest free public event rebranded as Balloons over Hamilton.

MAN OF FIRE: Pyrotechnics whiz Martin van Tiel puts the finishing touches to some of the roman candles to be used in Guy Fawkes fireworks displays at Morrinsville and Waitakere this weekend.

Beulah Cyr was a kindergarten teacher for more than 30 years. She retired in 1997, but she still spends time in a classroom every week.

A handful of students at Hamilton City High School will get a chance to see the painting "Liberty Leading the People" at the Louvre in Paris.

The mastermind behind the Rates Control Team which swept to power at Environment Waikato in the last local body elections is planning an even bigger coup on Hamilton City Council next year.

In his second bid for a Hamilton City Council seat, Larry Neal said he wants to see the new council get in touch with small businesses and residents.

The Utah-based businessman leading a bid to take over Hamilton's Church College says he's had encouraging discussions with Mormon church officials as efforts to save the school from demolition gather pace.

DISTRAUGHT: Widow Zandra Thompson, centre, is comforted by daughters Cynthia Ereuiti, left, and Cheryl Thompson, at her late husband's grave at Newstead.

A proposal to blow almost half of this year's $50,000 Hamilton City Council public art budget on "administration" has been slammed by a council committee.