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.

Braving the dark and cold, Elisabeth Easther, goes on a caving adventure and discovers more than one reason why Waitomo rocks.

Police have arrested three people after a "cocktail of danger" was uncovered in containers and caravans in rural Waikato last week.

The Government's water rights consultation hui is not robust or long enough, according to Ngati Maniapoto leaders.

This month's toll of job losses is striking - but it's a reflection of a slowing of the Chinese economy. It's time to look for jobs that have a future.

Sports writer Dan Coyle tells Phil Taylor about his long battle to cut through the PR myths surrounding Lance Armstrong and organised doping in cycling.

At Waihi Beach, Elisabeth Easther discovered that it is possible for the busy minded to unwind, if placed in the right hands.

A one-of-a-kind new water treatment facility near Taupo is using gas-gobbling bacteria and 378km of underground pipes to clean Waikato River water.

A youngster from the Solomon Islands has taken on the future king of England in a show of football prowess - and won. "He was good, yes, but not as good as me," said Philemon Fatai, 13.