Tokoroa job went viral in February but no one suitable has come forward.

Two next-door neighbours generations apart had an unusual introduction when one pulled the other from a house fire in Tokoroa.

An inquest is under way into the death of forestry worker Charles Finlay, with questions around the decision by WorkSafe not to lay charges,

A man dragged from the garage of his Tokoroa property after his house caught fire has died.

A twin boy was killed trying to escape a car as it rolled backwards down a steep farm driveway near Tokoroa, police say.

A child has been removed from a plastic pipe in a Tokoroa playground by firefighters this morning.

Police have recovered three firearms and a significant amount of ammunition from addresses in Tokoroa.

Two house fires in Tokoroa in the early hours of this morning are being treated as suspicious.

The crash between a motorbike and car happened at 3.05pm at the intersection of Pateke Place and Kereru St.

Eleven-year-old Jaida Maxwell-Davies' three cricket-mad brothers are often by her side during hospital visits. Yesterday, they got to meet their heroes.

The girl who almost choked to death in a horror karting incident remains in Starship hospital.

A woman frantically chopped off a girl's hair to save her life, after the girl's hair became tangled in the wheels of a kart when playing with a school friend.

A teenager in critical condition in Waikato Hospital last night has yet to learn of the deaths of his parents and sister in a head-on crash with a logging truck this week.

Three people have died and one is critically injured following a collision between a car and a logging truck in south Waikato this afternoon.

Two early childhood teachers admitted to mistreating young children.

The woman spoken to by police after a 20-year-old man was critically injured by a car in Tokoroa, has been charged with assault with a weapon.

A man has been critically injured after being struck by a car in Tokoroa today.

Auckland house prices have surged so much that the cost of just one bedroom in the suburb of Remuera is more than four times the price of an entire house in Tokoroa.

A man is dead after the car he was in crashed so violently that the engine was thrown 10 metres from the vehicle.

Tokoroa police are appealing for help in relation to a serious assault on a local couple.

A 200 metre area in Tokoroa has been cordoned of by police and the Fire Service, after contractors burst a gas main.

An elderly man who clung to bushes for six hours this morning after crashing his mobility scooter down a steep bank believes rescuers reached him just in time.

Tokoroa's talking poles tell Elisabeth Easther stories.

A blaze which tore through a house and car in Tokoroa this morning is being treated as suspicious.

A Rotorua man who was on the scene within seconds of a road worker being shot dead near Tokoroa says the victim was found with a hole in his head.

The family of a roadworker gunned down on an isolated South Waikato road were last night grieving for a cheeky, lovely and gentle man.

Police investigating the fatal shooting of road worker George Taiaroa near Tokoroa yesterday say no one heard gun shots.

A man has been shot and killed this afternoon in a forestry area at Kinleith, near Tokoroa, with police launching a homicide inquiry.

A Tokoroa dog on death row for more than two years with a bill nearing $80,000 in upkeep and legal costs has been sentenced to death.