People are stealing hand sanitiser from Waikato Hospital to get an alcohol fix with numerous reports of Sterigel theft in the last three years.

A Waikato couple say they are willing to sell their beloved 103-year-old church to the right buyer for a discounted rate.

A man has been stabbed in the leg with a boning knife after an argument in Hamilton.

A Waikato regional councillor found guilty of breaching the council's code of conduct twice in two weeks apologised in a tongue-and-cheek

Nanaia Mahuta's husband is the latest family member to put his hat in the ring for the upcoming elections.

A man has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after a pylon collapsed where a new pole is being put in for an expressway.

A Waikato woman was arrested in October and accused of creating fake CVs so that Filipinos could work in New Zealand.

A Waikato crash has claimed a life this morning.

Police divers will search lakes in the area where a Waikato woman was reported missing.

Firefighters are battling a "well-involved" house fire near Ngaruawahia.

He walked the streets and slept where he could shelter. Public spaces were his home and lots of people looked at him - but few actually saw him.

Nick Marshall's shocked partner has come out swinging against police after officers shot him dead during an armed raid.

After rugby training, teen Dylan Fynn came home, downed his nachos and calmly announced at the family dinner table: "I nearly died today."

A Waikato school has been abruptly closed for the day today after receiving a "physical threat".

A man brandishing a metal hammer attacked a woman inside her car after she stopped on the side of the road to adjust her radio, police say.

The man whose body was found in a cardboard bale last week likely died in a tragic accident, police say.

One person has died in Waipa after a truck and an SUV collided on State Highway 39 earlier this evening.

Te Kauwhata College principal Deborah Hohneck said it had been a game between friends which went too far.

12 Waikato high school students have made the 40 Hour Famine even harder for themselves by camping out at McDonald's while they fast for the good cause.

The road between Raglan and Hamilton is blocked tonight after a fatal road crash.

Routine police stop turns into special delivery as cop races to get woman in labour to hospital.

Man caught mistreating bobby calves, after animal welfare groups released video, pleads guilty to charges.

Waikato District Mayor Allan Sanson is disappointed the reporter referred to the town as "rotting" and has offered to show her around.

Hamilton mental health patient went on to drown himself in Waikato River.

Bruce Honore and his wife Meri had been at the Cambridge motocross track cheering on their 8-year-old grandson when a bike flew across the barrier.

The Hamilton City Council has postponed its first court appearance in relation to its prosecution after of one of its zoo keepers was mauled by a tiger.

Fleeing gang members hurled onions and a glass chopping board at police during a high-speed pursuit through the Waikato.

She's too young to realise it yet, but 7-year-old Elyse Brown is helping her dad, Heath, keep it together.

Pirongia is Maori for "like a bad smell" although Pirongia is pretty and not at all smelly.