The incident happened on State Highway 5 near Waiohotu Road and police said the road in the vicinity of the crash is now closed.

A Waikato man has lost his car and had his licence suspended after he was clocked travelling at 162km/h in Hamilton this morning.

Aucklanders are leaving in such numbers that half the house sales in the Waikato outside Hamilton and nearly a quarter in Tauranga are to those from the big city.

Emergency services have been called to the scene of the crash on State Highway 27 near Matamata.

Four people from Waikato suffered from smoke inhalation after they moved an outdoor fire brazier indoors early this morning.

Three Waikato Hospital nurses have been suspended for defying a controversial new policy forcing non-vaccinated workers to either get flu jabs or wear face masks.

Australasia's biggest lake offers plenty to see and do, writes Elisabeth Easther.

A girl who broke her jaw and needed more than 100 stitches after a horse kicked her in the face didn't even cry when she came to after the accident.

Traffic came to a halt on State Highway 1 this morning as Waikato police pursued a fleeing driver.

Police say the motorcyclist died after a crash in Rotokauri, Hamilton.

Two crashes - one fatal - have closed Waikato roads overnight. A 30-year-old motorcyclist died on Baverstock Rd in Rotokauri in a crash in the early hours of the morning.

The man, in his early 50s, was airlifted to Waikato Hospital on Saturday in a critical condition, and is now in a serious condition in the hospital’s High Dependency Unit.

A Waikato rural policing review has had to consider how to deal with the influx of Aucklanders moving to the region.

A man is now in a stable condition in hospital after he was gored by a bull in Waikato yesterday.

Elisabeth Easther finds this town has much to boast besides its famed giant L&P bottle.

Skiers and other holiday makers planning to use a popular Waikato backroad between Auckland and the Central Plateau's mountains are being warned to expect delays.

Waikato police are urging motorists to slow down after attending 10 crashes overnight.

A nurse who used a district health board's fuel card to buy $1860 of petrol for her own car has been fined by a tribunal.

Heavily-subsidised transport will next year see South Waikato students bussed up to study each day at the University of Waikato.

A teenager has been flown for specialist treatment after being injured in a crash in the Bay of Plenty yesterday.

Pull on your gumboots for four days of exhibitions, contests, entertainment, food and even art and fashion at Hamilton's Fieldays, says Sarah Ell.

There's more to check out while you're in the region for Fieldays.

The sentencing of a Waikato woman who spent $312,000 of her former employer's money paying off her bills and her wedding has been adjourned.

A woman was left with a broken collarbone and head injuries following a late night assault in the Hamilton last night.

A man who beat a police officer to death has been denied parole in his first hearing since he was jailed in 1999.

A Japanese tourist who missed her bus outside a rural New Zealand cave attraction is overwhelmed by the kindness of local people who came to her aid.

More details have emerged about a boating tragedy on the Waikato River that left one man dead and his three mates clinging to trees after their runabout capsized yesterday.

A duck-shooting trip turned to tragedy yesterday after a group of mates were flung from their boat as it capsized on the Waikato River.