Waikato

A health promoter has won an unfair dismissal case against the Waikato District Health Board after it asked her to start commuting three hours every day.

A teenager who rode a luge down the Kaimai Ranges has been fined, with police saying the ride could easily have ended in tragedy.

While a Waikato police officer breath-tested the driver, two passengers got out - and took off in the patrol vehicle.

A body has been found in the search for a 21-year-old man who went swimming in the Waikato River early yesterday morning.

One of New Zealand's top tourist attractions closed a number of times over summer because of excessive carbon dioxide, driven partly by visitor numbers. Video

A Huntly man has been arrested and charged following an attack on two local police officers with a metal bar.

Police are looking for a man seen in the Waikato River in Hamilton in the early hours of the morning.

A man who died after being hit by a car while walking along a State Highway in Waikato on Saturday morning was on his way home after his own vehicle ended up in a ditch.

Police in Hamilton are looking to speak to three teenagers about several aggravated robberies in the city over the past two months.

A passenger in a car fleeing police in Hamilton has been seriously injured after being thrown from the vehicle.

A 24-year-old man has died after being hit by a car while walking along a State Highway north of Matamata.

Police and fire investigators are continuing to try to find the cause of a large fire that destroyed six homes south of Whitianga.

Police have charged four people over a series of ram raids at businesses in Hamilton.

Fire crews are keeping a close eye on the site of a large blaze that broke out across the river from the Waikato town of Ngaruawahia.

Offers of help are pouring in for people affected by a fire south of Whitianga which destroyed a commune and several homes.

Homes have been evacuated as a wind change threatens more homes south of Whitianga.

A woman, her four children and her grandmother drove through flames to flee the Coromandel scrub fire that destroyed homes and an organic commune.

The scrub fire has wiped out four homes, an organic farm commune - and helicopter crews are frantically trying to stop it destroying more.

Fire crews have battled to contain a house fire near Tirau in Waikato.