Staff sorting items on the line at the Te Awamutu recycling facility, in August 2024. Photo: RNZ/ Libby Kirkby-McLeod
Waikato councils are standing firm on their Māori Ward seats, meaning most of the region's residents will face, and be paying for a referendum on the issue next year.
Cardiac surgeries are being delayed by up to eight weeks at Waikato Hospital.
And there's been a scary discovery at a recycling and sorting plant in Te Awamutu.
