Environment Waikato is worried about the danger of rapidly rising streams and rivers in the next few days.

French jeweller Thierry Martin has just been appointed head designer at leading Australian jewellers Fairfax & Roberts. On the eve of his trip to New Zealand he talks about his life-long affair with creating beautiful jewellery.

Two teens in hospital with critical injuries after a horror Waikato crash were wearing seatbelts, a relative says. Friends were thrown from the vehicle.