In a New Zealand first, the DHB has set up the Blood Management Service which sees a patient's blood analysed and potentially boosted if needed.

Husband of zoo curator Samantha Kudeweh who died in tiger attack last year says Hamilton City Council's $38,000 fine 'is a joke'.

A former primary school principal has been found guilty of serious misconduct.

People are stealing hand sanitiser from Waikato Hospital to get an alcohol fix with numerous reports of Sterigel theft in the last three years.

SH1 north of Huntly has reopened after a motorcycle crash which left a man with life-threatening injuries.

A man has been critically injured after a motorbike crash in the Waikato this afternoon.

Victims advocate says Chiefs should participate in anti-sexual violence course after Mad Monday stripper scandal.

A blunt instrument is believed to have been used to kill Hamilton man Brent Paul Brown in his Dinsdale home last week.

Half of Kiwi dads say they are missing out on family activities that they would like to take part in because they are chained to their work.

53-year-old Adele Townsend has been located in Levin this evening.

The small Waikato town of Cambridge welcomed home its champion Olympians today.

A 43-year-old woman appeared in the Hamilton District Court today on drug-related charges including manufacturing methamphetamine, and the cultivation of cannabis.

A man has been stabbed in the leg with a boning knife after an argument in Hamilton.

Sometimes you just throw a bag in the boot, reverse down the driveway. Nothin' more than a couple of hundred clicks of open road ahead. Ewan McDonald did.

A Waikato regional councillor found guilty of breaching the council's code of conduct twice in two weeks apologised in a tongue-and-cheek

Nanaia Mahuta's husband is the latest family member to put his hat in the ring for the upcoming elections.

Emergency services were called to the scene about 2.30pm, a Fire Service spokeswoman said.

A man has been airlifted to hospital after a serious assault in the Coromandel last night.

A Waikato woman was arrested in October and accused of creating fake CVs so that Filipinos could work in New Zealand.

St John was required to send five ambulances to the scene.

A Tauranga man has been flown by rescue helicopter to Waikato Hospital, after his condition deteriorated rapidly following a motorcycle crash.

A Waikato crash has claimed a life this morning.

All Blacks debutant Anton Lienert-Brown says it was unreal to pull on the black jumper for the first time. The 21-year-old played

A hunter who suffered a heart attack was winched to safety from hill country near Raglan last night.

A 21-year-old man suffered a broken jaw and cut to his head this evening when he fell 9m from a tree while trying to recover a rugby ball.

Police divers will search lakes in the area where a Waikato woman was reported missing.

Almost two weeks on from a horror crash actor James Rolleston remains in a stable condition in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit.

A two-car crash has blocked State Highway 1 south of Cambridge.

James Rolleston still in intensive care at Waikato Hospital.

The slaughterman whose cruel mistreatment of bobby calves was caught on camera has avoided jail.