Waikato Times - June 28, 2025

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Pasta de résistance: Theatre’s hi-tech spaghetti factory

Cambridge leads cocaine spike New data from the National Drug Intelligence Bureau, lifts the lid on meth, MDMA and cocaine consumption across eight sites

Sovereign of scrap: Inside Hoddy’s kingdom of metal

Prisoner beats, stomps guards

From class assignment to future top chefs?

Rural resurgence puts Waikato in an enviable economic position

Tainui announced as hosts

Boy racer warning: Police will come after you

Waikato Water - the region’s next billion-dollar company

Why NZ’s winter feels colder than it is

Evacuations, flooding hit top of South Island

Child sues over Baby Shark ‘humiliation’

NZ First MP stands down

Where are all the young truckers?

When the first question matters more than the first impression

ComCom investigates banks’ loan security arrangements

Controversial broadcaster joins TVNZ board

Widespread pushback from multiple sectors to Trump’s chip tariff threat

Government under pressure as pension reform talks stumble

Struggling coffee chain denies plan to offload China stores

Aristocrat turned Slane Castle into rock venue

Novelist of popular ‘murder among the rich’ stories

TODAY IN HISTORY

World’s richest 1% increased wealth by $33.9 trillion

Pentagon planning for bunker busting Iran raid took 15 years

Pastor ‘crucified by religious fanatic’ was first on list of 14

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Forbidden passion and a tragedy that left two dead

Unearthing the hidden champions of Cambridge

Letters to the Editor

Iran – much ado about nothing

Only a few missteps as Luxon hits foreign policy stride

What the Sensible Adults don’t tell you about super

Aid sector risks being Blockbuster in a Netflix world

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Relic from 90s but still worth ticket

Even a ‘mid-tier’ Pixar is more authentic than most

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The year of the spear

Quarrelling and uncertainty mires America's Cup

First 15: Ranking the Crusaders’ Super triumphs

Class on grass: Rivalries light up Wimbledon

Season on the line for battling Pulse

He’ll keep: Auckland student a hero in Brazil

Uncharted waters for duo after Cup split

At a glance

Jacobs’ journey heads to Zimbabwe

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From the Rams to the Bulls for Olbrich

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Singin’ in the Rain

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