Bruce Honore and his wife Meri had been at the Cambridge motocross track cheering on their 8-year-old grandson when a bike flew across the barrier.

A Hamilton woman has been left distraught after a freak accident at a Cambridge motocross event saw her husband killed.

The Hamilton City Council has postponed its first court appearance in relation to its prosecution after of one of its zoo keepers was mauled by a tiger.

Fleeing gang members hurled onions and a glass chopping board at police during a high-speed pursuit through the Waikato.

The man had walked outside his house to where trees were being trimmed and was hit on the head by a branching falling 10 metres above.

She's too young to realise it yet, but 7-year-old Elyse Brown is helping her dad, Heath, keep it together.

Ewan McDonald is shocked to find TripAdvisor on the money regarding comfortable beds.

Waikato DHB has come up with a national first by launching a smartphone app that lets people have consultations, text their GP and schedule appointments.

Police are investigating the incident, in which the Te Aroha Primary School pupil was walking over a walk bridge near the Waikato town's wetlands.

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.

Peter Bradbury's survival - he crawled 75m to his house before waiting up to eight days for help - is nothing short of miraculous.

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.

A 17-year-old girl who died as a result of a motor vehicle incident on Otorohanga's main street was found lying on the grass outside a house where a party had been.

A financial adviser with clients in the Waikato and the Bay of Plenty has pleaded guilty in the Tauranga District Court to a $1.4 million fraud.