Te Aroha locals are losing their local Westpac and ANZ branches which could force them to drive 20 minutes just to bank a cheque.

Winner's family know which numbers she plays so the morning after the draw, she received a call from one of them.

Morrinsville and Fairfield colleges closed for a week, and Nelson school students monitored after teenager who recently visited Hamilton contracted the disease.

Waihi police investigating the break-in at the town's Mobil service station, the fourth business to be targeted in Eastern Waikato over the past two days.

It may have had problems adjusting its internal GPS, but a seal found on a farm in Waikato had enough gas in the tank to give the police the runaround.

Two people were taken to hospital after a car went into a ditch in Morrinsville early this morning.

Northern Fire Communications shift manager Jaron Phillips said the fire was "fully involved" at the unit in Morrinsville.

Police are asking for the public to help in locating a young man in the Waikato after he failed to appear in court today.

No chickens were harmed in a fire that tore through a commercial chicken processing plant in rural Waikato this morning.

A 15-year-old Te Aroha girl who had been missing since Sunday has been found safe and well.

The boat, called Out There and a grey Nissan Terrano, registration BSQ435, were stolen from Te Aroha early today.

It may not be the first place that springs to mind when you're after an art fix, but Waikato is home to two exhibition spaces that will have culture seekers revelling, writes Libby Nicholson-Moon.

Police have referred to the coroner the 2009 death of Hail-Sage McClutchie in suspicious circumstances from head injuries.

One of the girls who allegedly attacked a fellow student at Morrinsville College last week is to be pulled out of school voluntarily by her mother.

Family members of the cyclists killed by a driver in Morrinsville just over a month ago share their stories of that fateful day.

The driver of a car that collided with a group of cyclists, killing three, has admitted causing their deaths.