Stories by Natalie Akoorie

The street is at risk of collapsing onto one of the country's busiest freight railway lines, but the road cannot be closed because it would cost at least $1 million.

There have been 70 new reports of information in the past three days. Audio

The union for Corrections officers says the same criticisms in a damning report released today were made after the Springhill Prison riot in 2013, but nothing has changed.

"For God's sake, that's not what should be happening at our kids' schools," say frustrated parents.

A crash that claimed the lives of five people north of Te Awamutu was the catalyst for a candlelight vigil in the Waikato town.

Bailey Ecclestone stabbed Matthew Williams in the neck last year when Williams intervened in a fight.

The business case for a third medical school at the University of Waikato is not expected until next year.

The NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi says seven years ago it improved the road where five people lost their lives last night. Audio

A Tauranga teacher, who resigned citing ill health after he was accused of propositioning a student, faced decades of complaints.

Up to 110 members of the Tertiary Education Union took strike action for three hours during the university's open day.

The facility was operating over occupancy in late April and early May.

The woman in her 60s was seriously injured after the attack near Tairua on Wednesday.

Students at Hamilton's Fraser High School are being taught in the library after the Ministry of Education began demolishing buildings.

The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticised the standard of care Te Whatu Ora Waikato provided to a woman who died of cancer.

Supporters are claiming the outcome as a victory, but a Waikato councillor would not be drawn on whether it could ensure the survival of the service.

Te Waka, which began in 2018 to drive economic performance in the fourth-largest region in the country, is the smallest and lowest-funded agency.

Melaina Huaki attended only two-thirds of the meetings she was scheduled to be at, and resigned after RNZ asked why.

She lived at the rehabilitation home after suffering a traumatic head injury in a car crash last year, police say.

Councillor Geoff Taylor called the app a luxury at a time when ratepayers were facing the biggest rate increase in two decades.

Jonathan Beau Hall forged his supervisors' signatures - and a judge estimates the cost of his fraud to be in the millions.

An engineer who forged the signatures of higher qualified colleagues is to be sentenced in the Rotorua District Court.

Disruption to patient care from a nationwide junior doctors strike is bordering on unsafe, a senior doctor claims, despite what health officials say.

Waikato Museum will close for renovations for months after it failed to secure national and international exhibits because of humidity and temperature control issues.

More than 200 people signed a petition, calling for the government to continue funding the service.

The midwifery programme at the University of Waikato hopes to address the region's 50 percent midwife shortfall.