Fairfield College's former, and controversial, principal is set to take up one of the top positions at Waikato's most prestigious school.

Police said the motorcyclist appears to have hit the side of a bridge.

Confusion reigns over whether Nikki Hamblin has been awarded a prized Olympic medal in Rio.

They call it the "fourth medal" but it's rarer than an Olympics gold, silver and bronze medal - and there's a growing chance a Kiwi is about to win it.

WATCH: New Zealand distance runner Nikki Hamblin's show of sportsmanship at the Olympics overnight was of no surprise to those who know her.

A two-car crash has blocked State Highway 1 south of Cambridge.

A car containing five people slid off a wet Waikato road and crashed into a rural fence and power pole.

Farmers worried for their safety after prized deer shot and killed.

Bruce Honore and his wife Meri had been at the Cambridge motocross track cheering on their 8-year-old grandson when a bike flew across the barrier.

A fire at Cambridge Middle School has been extinguished but firefighters are treating the blaze as suspicious.

Late-night rendezvous has left a pair of Cambridge lovers red-faced after police caught them in the act.

She was driving a bus-load of students to school when police pulled her over.

The motorist who died after a crash between her car and a truck and trailer unit in the Waikato has been named by police.

A person is dead after a crash between a car and truck on State Highway One near Cambridge today.

A Cambridge woman has admitted stealing at least $300,000 from her employer, the New Zealand Jersey Cattle Breeders Association.

Elisabeth Easther enjoys a tour of a Cambridge stud farm and takes a crash course on raising racehorses.

A motorcycle rider has died following a collision with a car near Cambridge this afternoon.

Nearly 30 Libyan soldiers training in Britain have been sent home after a spate of sex attacks in the city where they were based.

National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.

Outspoken biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins has provoked outrage on Twitter by saying that 'stranger rape' was worse than 'date rape'.

Firefighters are dampening down hot spots at a rural location near Cambridge following a massive shed fire in the early hours of this morning.

Two firefighters have narrowly escaped serious injury after a water tanker they were travelling in rolled near Cambridge.

A light plane crashed on Kumara Beach, near Hokitika, this afternoon but the pilot walked away.

It is quite likely we will one day create a machine - a robot, if you like - that can "think" faster than we do, writes Gwynne Dyer.

A Cambridge horse trainer charged with illegally importing performance-enhancing drugs says the case is "a big misunderstanding".