McDonald's staff at a branch in Hamilton have been slammed for the handling of a situation in which a child defecated on the playground.

A man has been stabbed in the leg with a boning knife after an argument in Hamilton.

Nick Marshall's shocked partner has come out swinging against police after officers shot him dead during an armed raid.

The body found in cardboard bales has been identified as Te Awamutu father-of-three Daniel Bindner.

A blessing is to be held on the site of the Frankton cardboard processing factory where a body of man was found in a cardboard bale.

By this time next year, the first buildings could be going up in Wanaka's single-biggest commercial and residential development.

Hamilton police are talking to several people after a man armed with a boning knife threatened to kill himself and a woman early today.