A Waihi Beach man thought the noise he heard in the early hours was the sound of someone falling from a balcony. But when he went to offer help he found a man with two stab wounds fighting for his life.

A holidaymaker is fighting for his life in hospital after being stabbed in his neck and head when he went to investigate a disturbance outside his caravan at Waihi Beach.

A 100-year-old sporting event continues to thrive, writes Elisabeth Easther.

An exhibition celebrating the actions of a shot police officer who killed a striking Waihi gold miner, 100 years ago, is opening at the New Zealand Police Museum at Porirua tonight.

Carla Botha, co-owner, The Porch at Waihi Beach.

This month's toll of job losses is striking - but it's a reflection of a slowing of the Chinese economy. It's time to look for jobs that have a future.

As mining makes a political comeback Catherine Masters finds strong local opposition to the prospect of a Northland gold rush

Wayne Thompson cycles the Karangahake Gorge section of Nga Haerenga and finds marvels of a bygone era.

If modern life is a battlefield, then everyday etiquettes are the mines hidden across it, many laid where you least expect them. So why, asks Greg Dixon, do people not tread more carefully?