An English teenager, in New Zealand on his OE, has admitted killing two people and injuring four others in a car crash near Matamata earlier this year.

Police have named a 91-year-old woman who died after she was hit by a car in central Hamilton yesterday.

A former teen beauty queen has been jailed for a year on a raft of offences, including a "sham" marriage.

A Hamilton community magistrate said it was in the public interest that a NZ rugby star's identity...

The gap in New Zealand's capital markets needs addressing urgently, writes Franceska Banga.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters made some big-spending promises to the Grey Power conference in Hamilton last night - including paying part of their power bill.

Seven seconds in March convinced Mystics coach Debbie Fuller her team were made of the right stuff.

A man charged with setting his wife on fire at a rural Waikato roadside before fleeing for Fiji with his son will plead not guilty to her murder.

Last year, 12 people died in nine separate crashes over the Easter break - this year, there have been no deaths.

The winner of half of the biggest Lotto Powerball first division prize is still to collect the riches.

The Prime Minister has been accused of inappropriately "commandeering" the air force to get to photo opportunities and exclusive events after using an Air Force Iroquois to get to the V8s in Hamilton and back to Auckland.

nzherald.co.nz brings live updates of the second feature race of the ITM400 V8 Supercars event in Hamilton.