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Problem gambler jailed for IRD scam

A former IRD employee has been sentenced to two years and five months in prison on dozens of fraud charges spanning nearly six years.

'Economic abuse' on par with domestic violence

Good Samaritans stop violent assault

Two Waikato women stepped in and stopped a man who was kicking his partner in the head on a Ngaruawahia street on Sunday night.

Man trapped by train

Pedestrian killed by truck named

Man hit, killed by truck in north Waikato

Sergeant Juliet Burgess of the Huntly Strategic Traffic Unit said emergency services were called to a 100km/h stretch of SH1 by the intersection with Kelm Rd about 5.18am.

Guilty plea after French tourists attack

'Violent, malicious' cleaver attack

A Ngaruawahia man is to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he was charged with attacking three men with a meat cleaver, putting all of them in hospital.

Firecrews tackle large house blaze