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.

Emergency services were called to the scene at the intersection of Margaret St and Tirau St in Putaruru at 8pm.

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.

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.

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".

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.

Waikato residents will only be allowed to use their sprinklers and watering systems on alternate days in two two-hour windows in an attempt to conserve water.

Mindless vandals have targeted NZ's only rural special needs school in an attack the principal said "leaves you feeling sick".

A visit to the Zealong Tea Estate is all things tea, including tea-based cocktails and mocktails. Just don't ask for a coffee!

A man has been arrested after he "lost it" and set his house on fire on Christmas Eve in rural Waikato.

A former manager of a Waikato school has admitted defrauding it of nearly $800,000.

Firefighters commandeered a private boat to carry out the rescue of two people from the Waikato River.

Two car crashes this evening in the North Island have left three people injured, two of them seriously.