Have you tried Hamilton's bilingual cafe?
If you're a te reo speaker, a learner, or curious, here's a place to give speaking Māori a go.
The District in Te Rapa is Hamilton's bilingual cafe.
There's no judgement, owner Lesley Leevey says, and there's a laminated phrase sheet by the counter.
Read more here.
Would you try ordering a kawhe [coffee], kaputī [cup of tea] or tiakarete wera [hot chocolate]?
Every imagined seeing your local reporters on the TV news?
The Waikato Times will be a crucial part of what has been described as “a new era of innovation and freshness”, when Stuff takes over the news on Three.
Stuff and Warner Bros Discovery confirmed on Tuesday morning a deal that will see Stuff produce a 6pm bulletin for the television network.
Poll: Could we live without public bins?
Many public rubbish bins are being removed by councils due to the large costs of regularly emptying them. Do you think we can adapt and live without them?
Type 'Not For Print' if you wish your comments to be excluded from the We Say You Say column of your local paper.
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12.2% Yes
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87.2% No
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0.6% Other - I'll share below
Poll: What do you think of Hamilton's new parking meters?
A new parking meter system is supposed to “offer greater convenience” in central Hamilton, but CBD barber Gini Berggren says it has the potential to trim her customers.
Forty per cent of Berggren’s customers are elderly, and she’s frustrated to watch them walk the distance from her premises at Barber on Barton up the street to sort out their parking.
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0% I like them.
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0% Doesn't make much of a difference for me.
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0% Don't like them.
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0% Haven't used them yet.
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0% Other - explain in the comments
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