The family of a man who died while being restrained in his prison cell are unhappy with the coroner's findings that “justifiable and necessary restraint” was used.

Standing in front of a round green door, set into a cheery hillside, I half expect to see Gandalf the Grey and Bilbo Baggins wandering up the footpath.

It may be the butt of many a joke, but Colin Hogg can't wait to get back to the city Aucklanders love to hate.

Prison officers were justified in restraining an inmate after a struggle described as a "seething mass of humanity", a coroner's inquest has found.

Police have released the name of a man killed in a motorbike crash in Waikato on Sunday.

A former prison guard who admitted arranging drug deals into a Waikato facility with an inmate has been fired.

So you've been tasked with organising a hen's party ... one option is fleeing the city and swapping novelty cakes and forced craziness for a weekend of fun and pampering.

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.

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

An award-winning painting stolen from Waikato Hospital had just been selected by an art expert to hang in the upgraded mortuary because of its "ability to calm people" at a stressful time.

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

Elisabeth Easther becomes 'spokes woman' for the joys of the Hauraki Rail Trail.

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.