Police want to speak with witnesses who saw an orange Ford Falcon in the hours before the driver was killed when his vehicle crashed into a tree in the Waikato.

Elisabeth Easther travels back in time to a sleepy town at the end of the Waikato River.

Warmer weather brings a new energy for experiencing the great outdoors. Great Lake Taupo will not disappoint, writes Donna Jarden.

A 17-year-old has been flown to Waikato Hospital after suffering severe injuries in a motorcycle crash.

Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.

Dairy products are spilling into the Awakino Gorge on State Highway 3 after a serious milk tanker crash this morning.

A Canadian man has been charged over the death of a Canadian woman in a T-bone collision in eastern Waikato.

Sergeant Juliet Burgess of the Huntly Strategic Traffic Unit said emergency services were called to a 100km/h stretch of SH1 by the intersection with Kelm Rd about 5.18am.

A 20-strong surgical team has reattached the fingers of a Waikato meatworker, who was originally keen to have them chopped off completely.

Grant "Grunty" Wyllie was well-known and liked in Whitianga as a good guy whose passion was pig hunting. Or so his friends thought.

Two men found in a clandestine P lab on the outskirts of Whitianga on Saturday have been named.

Labour sees level of compensation in Waikato region as high.

Police have launched an investigation after the bodies of two men were found in a cave in the Coromandel Peninsula.