A Waikato woman was caught driving nearly four times over the limit while "rushing to get home before she turned into a pumpkin".

Pirongia is Maori for "like a bad smell" although Pirongia is pretty and not at all smelly.

Police are appealing for the driver of a white utility vehicle to come forward after a man was killed when a car and truck collided in rural Waikato today.

An outbreak of the measles virus has hit the Waikato with eight confirmed cases and a further three possible cases reported.

A 3-year-old boy has been discharged from Waikato Hospital after he was found floating face-down in a pool.

A 20-year-old man remains in hospital today after being hit in the mouth by an exploding air freshener.

A law firm must reimburse a deceased Waikato farmer's estate more than $1 million to make good on financial losses.

Waikato police are praising the actions of motorists who dobbed in a truck driver seen swerving all over a state highway.

A woman has died and another has serious injuries after a car rolled in Waikato about 1am today.

Waihi police investigating the break-in at the town's Mobil service station, the fourth business to be targeted in Eastern Waikato over the past two days.

Two aggravated robberies which occurred within minutes of each other in the Waikato are not linked, police say.

In the same week as calls are made to toughen up legislation for canine owners, two more are mauled by dogs

New signage warning of the strong currents at Whangamata Harbour are being erected following the tragic death of 15-year-old paddleboarder Amie Russell.

A motorcyclist has died after striking a road barrier on State Highway One in the Waikato this morning.

Fire crews were last night fighting a fire at a commercial property in the northern Waikato settlement of Tuakau.

Winston Aldworth lays down his towel at a classic Coromandel beach.

Students at Te Kuiti High School, where former student Ocean Heke attended, were visibly shaken this morning.

One of the last things Ocean Heke did before she died was hug and kiss the mother of one of her oldest friends.

Miriyana Alexander checks out a luxury lodge that's luring celebs to New Zealand.

Formerly a mill town, the area was surveyed in the 1880s, in 1903 the main trunk line came through and the school was opened in 1904, the same year the phone line was brought in.

The world's biggest princess carriage and a giant race car are taking to the Waikato skies.

A 37-year-old woman who crashed her car and killed a woman while high on methamphetamine has been jailed.

A Morrinsville mum whose three children were on a school bus when it was shot at says it was "bloody scary".

Deep beneath the Earth's surface the magical sight of thousands of glow-worms makes the cave ceiling twinkle.

An American tourist whose wife was killed in a crash in South Waikato is now in a stable condition in Waikato Hospital.

A wacky new way to deliver the weather forecast is causing outbreaks of hilarity across some areas of New Zealand.

Originally called Hukanui, with huka being Maori for "foam, frost or snow" and nui meaning big; in this neck of the woods it means "heavy frost".

A woman was airlifted to hospital after a fall near the Waikato River yesterday evening.

The man who died after his motorbike and a car collided at an intersection in Waikato is from Hamilton.

Opito was worth the journey, even if Eveline Harvey didn't get to sample its scallops.