A 10-year-old girl had a gun pointed in her face while working at a Hamilton takeaway bar and her family is now "very afraid".

Police are appealing for information about aggravated robbery of a Hamilton takeaway bar on Saturday where a young girl was held up at gunpoint.

A visit to a blueberry farm is entertaining for the whole family, discovers Alexia Santamaria.

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.

'Heaven knows what the offenders were planning to do with their loot.' Police were surprised at one of the items taken in a Halloween burglary.

The crime-fighting success of residents in Hamilton's Fairview Downs earned praise from the police, and one resident says he hopes the story inspires others to do the same.