The All Blacks selectors will seriously consider ditching a backup hooker and halfback from their year-end tour squad to make room for more rugby World Cup fringe contenders.

The executive chef of dine by Peter Gordon at Sky City answers your cuisine questions.

Police are hunting a man who terrorised an elderly Hamilton couple in their home early this morning.

No less than 18 All Blacks are about to start filtering back into the national provincial championship.

City dweller Janna Hamilton gets out of her comfort zone, spending a weekend getting wild in Poronui - albeit with a large dose of luxury.

Southland tackled themselves to a standstill against Waikato in their ITM Cup rugby match in Hamilton last night.

All Blacks midfielder Richard Kahui has been ruled out of rugby for the rest of the season following shoulder surgery.

The inmate who killed a Waikato prison guard is due in court this morning for a disputed facts hearing.

It was little more than a year ago when the All Blacks' first five-eighths pecking order seemed set.

A man faces four charges after a series of firearm incidents in the King Country over the past three days.

A man has been arrested over a series of firearm incidents in the King Country over the past three days.

The Crafar farming family has lost its appeal against convictions and sentences for dirty dairying practices on a Waikato dairy farm.

Three patrons wrestled a rifle from a man as he attempted to rob a bar after they realised he had fired his only shot into the ceiling.

Waikato band The Good Fun have won the National Final of the Smokefreerockquest.

Waikato residents renewed their calls for a commuter rail service between Hamilton and Auckland with staged sit ins at train stations on Saturday.

Police have charged a 22-year-old mother in relation to an alleged child abandonment incident this morning.

Police are speaking to the mother of two young children found home alone early today, surrounded by alcohol cans and a condom.