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.

Family and friends of a missing boatie continue their search for him in Tauranga waters.

As police services up and down the country are centralised, the Waipa Mayor is voicing his concerns after his constituents struggle to contact police in emergencies, particularly after hours.- Made with funding from NZ On Air.

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.

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 are looking for a teenager who failed to return home to Te Awamutu after spending the afternoon in Hamilton.

An earthmoving company has been ordered to pay more than $140,000 after an employee was killed by an exploding bitumen tank last year.

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 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.

Te Awamutu police have shared a dramatic photo of a car being torched in the Waikato town early this morning.

Several residents in Te Awamutu were surprised to find local police knocking on their doors today offering packages of free meat.

A man has been taken to hospital after getting his legs caught underneath a digger in Te Awamutu today.

A man used a cut-down shotgun when he robbed a bank in Te Awamutu.

A motorcyclist who died after a collision with a car in Waikato last week had been the subject of a complaint about his riding only moments before the crash.

A 12-year-old girl who suffered serious injuries after being attacked by a cow is just the latest victim among thousands of cases of people being hurt by cattle.

One lucky Lotto player from Te Awamutu is $1 million richer today after winning Lotto First Division last night.