Offenders allegedly used toilet doors as weapons against staff.

Waikeria Prison is located off State Highway 3, south of Te Awamutu in the Waikato.

A helicopter helped battle the scrub fire.

The crash happened near Gordonton about 11am today.

Children and dogs are thought to be at particular risk of harm.

The circumstances of how the person came to be in the river are still being established.

Work being carried out on about 2500 sites on the national roading network.

The Cambridge-based jockey was remanded on bail without plea until next month.

Justice Matthew Muir released his 300-page reserve decision this morning.

The judge revealed the verdicts at 10am.

A homicide investigation is under way in Hamilton after an incident overnight.

Despite not entering a plea, Roger Pikia said he'd 'vigorously defend the charges'.

The alarm was raised just before 2.30pm.

A victim says pent-up frustration prompted him to stab a convicted paedophile in prison.

Sean McKinnon's sisters have shared their thoughts on today's sentencing.

A judge delivered his sentence to Mark Garson in the High Court at Hamilton today.

Patient in ambulance was tipped upside down when a car slammed into it.

Xiaoling Chen says she was a 'middleman' and entitled to cash 'finder's fees'.

Kaumātua came up with the cookie cutters as part of a whānau ora innovation project.

Waikato Regional councillor claims fellow councillors are trying to silence him.

Some bargain-hunting customers left disappointed and empty-handed yesterday.

Police were alerted to the crashed vehicle in the early hours of today.

A pathologist has found the 3-month-old died from septicaemia.

A truck has rolled on SH27 in Ngarua, in the Matamata-Piako district, early this morning.

The income earned on council's Victoria St properties halved this year.