Distraught family of slain Matamata mother Helen Meads say they are relieved her husband has been found guilty of her murder.

A jury took just three hours to find Waikato horse breeder Greg Meads guilty of murdering his wife, in the Hamilton High Court has this afternoon.

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.

Police have widened their probe into a possible Super City voting scam to cover hundreds of people living in Hastings, Tauranga and Hamilton.

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