Hamilton police are appealing for the mother of an 18-month-old girl to contact them after the child was allegedly abducted yesterday.

During Waimarino's new Thermal Hot Pool & Glow-worm Cave Kayak Tour, paddlers skirt the bushy shores of Lake Rotoiti before slipping into a cave where glow-worms twinkle all around.

Labour president Andrew Little says the party will act if any of its members are found to have been involved in a Super City voting scam.

Homicide police were back at a central Auckland building site at first light today, digging deeper in their search for clues into the death of Auckland mother Carmen Thomas.

Police have started another Super City electoral investigation, this time into allegations of bribery on the North Shore.

A supermarket baker hid after thieves drove their car through the front of the store to steal a few boxes of beer.

Police yesterday raided a Hamilton house for bricks of gold and foreign banknotes worth $1 million in an international seizure operation.

Police are hunting a man who terrorised an elderly Hamilton couple in their home early this morning.

Inmate Latu Kepu has been sentenced to six years and four months for the manslaughter of a Waikato prison guard.