A teenage driver on a learner's licence lost control and careered into a group of students waiting for a school bus in Waikato this morning.

A young man who apparently drank too much at a party fell up to 15m down a Waikato River bank after going outside to be sick.

A car has flipped while towing a trailer with another car in it on a motorway south of Auckland this afternoon.

A young girl has suffered a head injury after her hair caught in a go-kart yesterday, in what was described as an "unusual incident".

Danielle Wright enjoys the magic of Balloons Over Waikato in Hamilton.

A German tourist driver involved in a head-on collision on the yesterday has been charged with careless driving causing injury.

A man's body was discovered face down in shallow water alongside the Waikato River this morning.

A tourist allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road hit another car head-on on the State Highway 6 Coast Road between Greymouth and Westport this morning.

The family of a man whose body was found in the Waikato River last week claim he was the victim of "medical and bureaucratic malpractice".

A Cambridge woman has admitted stealing at least $300,000 from her employer, the New Zealand Jersey Cattle Breeders Association.

The man who died after being found lying in a Hamilton road last week was Sean Anthony O'Connor.

A truck that caught fire early this morning, is causing traffic delays on State Highway 27 near Morrinsville.

Elisabeth Easther takes the boys on the road down to Raglan for a weekend.

A motorcyclist has died after colliding with a reversing vehicle at a road works site in Meremere this morning.

Sally Greed is the owner of BeSeen, a Tirau-based business that produces high visibility vests and other accessories for dogs.

Police have released the name of two men who died after separate crashes in the Waikato last week.

Two Waikato police stations could lose staff or close after the completion of a review into rural policing in the district.

A man who lost control of his motorbike and crashed yesterday has died in hospital.

Name suppression has lapsed for a Meremere man accused of murder.

A homicide enquiry is underway after a deadly shooting in a suburb yesterday evening.

A man was shot dead at close range in Hamilton last night.

Great surf and scenery and a passionate local populace impress Elisabeth Easther.

A teenager in critical condition in Waikato Hospital last night has yet to learn of the deaths of his parents and sister in a head-on crash with a logging truck this week.

Three people have died and one is critically injured following a collision between a car and a logging truck in south Waikato this afternoon.