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 Hamilton woman has been left distraught after a freak accident at a Cambridge motocross event saw her husband killed.

A 68-year-old spectator has died and two people are injured after a motorbike lost control at an event in Cambridge.

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 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.

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".

Four overturned trucks in just over a week have brought a warning to drivers to watch their speed, loads and fatigue levels.

To mark the Herald relaunch we're taking an in-depth, week-long look at what it means to be Kiwi. Today - why we choose NZ over anywhere else on the globe.

A truck driver has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was rescued from a milk tanker which crashed into a power pole, bringing down live power lines. The man was trapped in the badly damaged cab for about 40 minutes.

This charming Waikato town proves a great choice for a weekend away, writes Elisabeth Easther.