Former Bachelorette Alicia Cowan has joined a protest against factory farming.

Vehicles on fire at towing firm, emergency services responding.

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Massive growth projected for the Waipa district has prompted a formal review

Eight out of 10 Waikato school bus routes earmarked for withdrawal in 2018 will continue

A Pirongia couple were caught in Cyclone Debbie.

Welby Ings believes teachers need to disobey rules to help students believe in themselves.

New Zealand's oldest missing person case is set to close.

Family thank public support and speculate on what may have happened to missing fisherman.

Four teenagers have been arrested in connection with a series of robberies in the Waikato region

Police believe David Thompson is in Hamilton and is known to have associates across Waikato.

Alan Langdon, who is accused of taking his 6-year-old daughter to Australia, didn't turn up to court.

They gathered at remote town hall to watch the Chiefs' semifinal hopes being dashed. Hours later, mother-of-three Kim Richmond was gone.

They know mummy is missing and that police are looking for her, but Kim Richmond's three children are being shielded from the possibility she might never come home.

Emergency services are attending a three-car pile-up on SH1 in the Manawatu District this afternoon.

Te Awamutu woman has met the love of her life living 11,711km away in Texas while playing a mobile farming game.

Friends and family are using social media to plead for sightings of a New Zealand man missing in Bali.

A police search in Te Awamutu took a cute turn.

Police said the motorcyclist appears to have hit the side of a bridge.

Officers investigating burglaries and thefts in the Waikato - including a burglary at the Te Awamutu Police station - have recovered a stash of police-issue equipment.

A woman who left her farm on Monday has not been seen since and police are appealing for sightings.

He walked the streets and slept where he could shelter. Public spaces were his home and lots of people looked at him - but few actually saw him.

Aleesha Tait had just finished her morning shift on a farm and was heading home for lunch when her farm bike and a car collided in Waikato.

A man who won a share of the country's biggest Lotto prize in history on Saturday nearly gave away his ticket to a friend.

After rugby training, teen Dylan Fynn came home, downed his nachos and calmly announced at the family dinner table: "I nearly died today."

A checkout supervisor was "shaking" as she put a winning Lotto ticket barcode to the scanner. The machine beeped and the screen read $13.36 million.

The man whose body was found in a cardboard bale last week likely died in a tragic accident, police say.

First Union assistant general secretary Karl Andersen says the driver of a recycling truck is not to blame for the death of a homeless man.

Stacey Walker is a rare breed - a woman who's happiest wearing her hi-vis vest.

The driver of a red car who may hold information into a crash which claimed four young lives came forward after an appeal was made.