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.

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.