The V8s will officially kick off next month with a launch party in Garden Place. Hamilton hosts its third annual V8 Supercar Streetrace on 16-18 April, when thousands of drivers, teams, corporate guests and motorsport fans come to the city for the New... more...

A sustained decrease in the amount of water being consumed throughout Hamilton has seen the city’s water alert levels reduced to alert level 1 today. Hamilton City Council city waters manager Tim Harty said the city’s water consumption had decreased... more...

For more information visit www.childrensday.org.nz With seven free family events organised across Hamilton this weekend, this year’s 10th annual Children’s Day will be the biggest yet for the city. For the past decade Children’s Day has... more...

A piece of Hamilton’s history will be celebrated this Sunday [7 March] when a civic ceremony is held to mark the completion of the PS Rangiriri restoration project. The year-long project has seen the vessel lifted and conserved, and interpretive panels... more...

Families are invited to ‘take a walk on the wild side’ at Hamilton Zoo this Sunday [7 March] for its Family Fun Day. Running from 10am-2pm, the fun day will have a ‘wild things’ theme – with children encouraged to come along dressed as a ‘zoo wild... more...

A play about women written and performed by women, for women, with proceeds to go to Women’s Refuge will be held at Waikato Museum to mark International Women’s Day. ‘My Name is Ruhi’ will be performed in the Waikato Museum Lecture Theatre at 6.30pm on... more...

Hamilton City Council has adopted a new system for listing candidates on voting papers, ahead of the local body elections on 9 October 2010. Councillors have decided to drop the traditional alphabetical order of candidates in favour of a... more...

Hamilton City Council has approved a $435,000 contract to restore the Bryce Street to London Street section of the riverbank and walkway, washed away by major flooding in 2008. The 2008 floods saw river levels rise to over 16 metres in the city,... more...

Construction of the much-awaited Hydrotherapy Pool will begin this Thursday 25 February at Hamilton City Council’s public pool complex, Waterworld. At a ceremony onsite to mark the occasion, Hamilton Mayor Bob Simcock and Hamilton Hydrotherapy Pool... more...

A chimpanzee in Malaysia left such an impression on Hamilton Zoo volunteer host Kim White that she is fundraising to return to the country to help improve its quality of life. In May last year Ms White participated in a volunteer programme to... more...

The public are being advised to keep their dogs out of Hamilton Lake (Lake Rotoroa) and avoid all contact with the water due to a potentially toxic bloom of blue-green algae. Hamilton City Council staff raised the alarm about the algae yesterday and an... more...

Councillors have identified additional savings in the draft 2010/11 Annual Plan, resulting in a further reduction in the proposed average annual rates increase to 3.4%. These fresh savings identified at a Council meeting yesterday (Wednesday, 10... more...

A lightening strike at the city’s water treatment plant has affected water supply in parts of the city. The lightening strike happened about midnight damaging computers and alarm systems at the Peacockes Rd plant. The plant provides all of the city’s... more...

Hamilton City Council is to build a new rugby training ground at Beetham Park, near Waikato Stadium. The facility will include a full-sized field, goalposts, lighting, changing sheds, and toilets. Tenders are currently being invited for construction,... more...