Police have located a suspended driver who allegedly fled a crash that killed a 71-year-old woman in Hamilton today.

Police are urging people to be responsible at work parties after a Hamilton woman bit off another woman's fingernail at a Christmas drinks function.

It may be the butt of many a joke, but Colin Hogg can't wait to get back to the city Aucklanders love to hate.

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

A council has gone to extreme lengths to create safer neighbourhoods by preventing home owners from building garages ahead of the house, and forcing more living on to the front yard with little privacy.

Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.

Police are crediting members of a Hamilton community with the arrest of four burglars who were caught after being chased by neighbours, including one on a push bike.

Two ring-tailed lemur babies have been born to mother Yetta at Hamilton Zoo.