The parrot of my dreams
Elisabeth Easther followed her heart to Maungatautari in the hope that Sirocco, her kakapo friend, would recall their fleeting fling.
Elisabeth Easther followed her heart to Maungatautari in the hope that Sirocco, her kakapo friend, would recall their fleeting fling.
A tiny rural Waikato town wants to establish itself as the "North Island's premier food technology hub".
National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.
When Dame Susan Devoy was appointed Race Relations Commissioner last year, the intelligentsia sniffed at the choice of a squash champion.
A 21-year-old Hamilton woman has serious injuries after her car left the road and crashed down a slope about 100m long in Waitomo this afternoon.
Danielle Wright spends a rainy day in Waikato, in the company of the Incas' silent brothers — the llamas.
A Dutch couple coming to New Zealand to visit their Taupo-based daughter on a "trip of a lifetime" were among those killed on MH17.
A master surfboard maker has sold a handcrafted board to a New Zealand buyer for a staggering $1.5 million.
The Waikato District Health Board has backed its incoming chief executive, despite concerns about his time overseeing a Canadian health authority.
The new boss of Waikato's DHB was in charge of one of the worst-performing Canadian health authorities - and Labour has questioned his appointment.
Cold nights are lit up with fire breathers, tin lanterns and fluorescent faces, finds Catherine Smith.
Head to some of these local gems next time you're visiting the peninsula.
Fergusson, the 10kg cat, is a regular sight in the corridors of Waikato Hospital, cheering up patients and posing for photographs as he goes.
Paul Charman on the joys of a weekend driving around the Central Plateau.
A 29-year-old inmate is in a stable condition after a stabbing at Spring Hill Prison.
Sports, cultural events, school trips and dances have been cancelled or postponed in some Waikato schools after an outbreak of the measles.
A visit to Waitomo has long been on our family’s holiday "to do" list...
Climb aboard a carriage to appreciate a potter's decades-long labour of love.
This hand-laid, three-kilometre-long railway snakes its way through rugged Coromandel bush terrain to a tower that affords wonderful views out to the Hauraki Gulf.
For further information see: drivingcreekrailway.co.nz
Small town New Zealand does wonderful and whacky to keep up our winter spirits.