A Waikato crash has claimed a life this morning.

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

The slaughterman whose cruel mistreatment of bobby calves was caught on camera has avoided jail.

The Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter was called to the Hakarimata Summit Track around 1 pm after the teenager tripped and fell while going down the steps.

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".

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.

Long-serving Waikato MP Lindsay Tisch will leave Parliament after next year's election.

A smart new way to speed up honey production is one of many innovations to be seen at this week's Fieldays.

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.

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.

Police are appealing for the driver of a white utility vehicle to come forward after a man was killed when a car and truck collided in rural Waikato today.

A 20-year-old man remains in hospital today after being hit in the mouth by an exploding air freshener.

Waikato police are praising the actions of motorists who dobbed in a truck driver seen swerving all over a state highway.

A woman has died and another has serious injuries after a car rolled in Waikato about 1am today.

Peter Bradbury's survival - he crawled 75m to his house before waiting up to eight days for help - is nothing short of miraculous.

Waihi police investigating the break-in at the town's Mobil service station, the fourth business to be targeted in Eastern Waikato over the past two days.

Two aggravated robberies which occurred within minutes of each other in the Waikato are not linked, police say.