Police have referred to the coroner the 2009 death of Hail-Sage McClutchie in suspicious circumstances from head injuries.

A gang member believed to be armed and using methamphetamine has been arrested in Huntly, north of Hamilton.

A man has claimed the million dollar ticket from the weekend's Lotto draw.

Police have released new images of a knife-wielding man who threatened a lone female assistant in a Hamilton sex shop last month.

When the on-track action at Hamilton's V8 Supercars cools off next weekend, ZZ Top will fire up the fans after dark.

Men will see murder as cheaper than divorce following the Greg Meads sentence, Sensible Sentencing...

Two women who discovered they were both in a relationship with the same man and then ransacked his house and blackmailed him have been sentenced to 350 hours community work.

Farmers are threatening to tear down the predator-proof fence that surrounds the Maungatautari wildlife sanctuary - once seen as a visionary collaboration

A devastating pig disease which broke out in the North Island in 2003 and crossed to the South Island in 2006 is still spreading, farmers say.

A road worker who died after he was run over by a tarseal spraying truck north-east of Hamilton on Thursday was today named by police as Graham Donald Bennie, 55, of Huntly.

All Blacks winger Joe Rokocoko has been reinstated to the Blues' starting team to play the Chiefs on Saturday.

Read the tributes from Hollywood legends to Academy Award winning actress Elizabeth Taylor, who died overnight, aged 79.