Waikato

Four men tied themselves together and spent 45 minutes in the water after their boat flipped crossing the Port Waikato bar.

A boy is in Waikato Hospital with serious burns after falling from a motorbike in Kawerau.

A Ngaruawahia gang leader who claimed he had run Meth dealers out of town has pleaded not guilty to firearms charges and possessing an offensive weapon.

A surge in the number of people seeking treatment at Hamilton's hospital on Saturday was caused by drinking at home rather than in bars, the city's mayor says.

Anthony Chanpraseuth, 31, who lived in Hamilton and was of Thai descent, drowned in the Waikato River on Sunday.

Drunk patients overran Waikato Hospital's emergency department on Saturday, with some patients waiting 11 hours to be seen.

A hunter who has been missing in the central North Island's Kaimanawa Ranges since Saturday has been found safe and well.

Police are investigating the death of the 31-year-old Hamilton man.

A boat carrying four people capsized today on the Kawhia Harbour bar, less than a week after a bar crossing further north left seven dead and another missing.

Officials have uncovered a "black-market butchery" trading in sheep, cow and goat in Waikato.

Police are yet to fully implement any recommendations following the death of Nicky Stevens in Hamilton last year.

A massive fire spread from silos at a timber processing plant to buildings nearby and destroyed crucial machinery.

The Kāhui Wairua, a group of the Māori King's spirtual advisors, has performed prayers over the Māori monarch and his son Korotangi before the pair are admitted to a private hospital for a kidney…

A 21-year-old man goes on trial today after the death of a teenage girl in a hit and run in King Country in April.

Forty Waikato teachers met last week to hear about bringing agri-science alive in the classroom.

Meth use is increasing the workload for women's refuge centres, with one centre reporting the drug to be involved with 60 percent of all the cases they deal with.

Brent Christoffersen, 32, was last seen near the Huka Falls.

An inmate who pinched a prison guard's bottom is the first to be sentenced for a third-strike offence since the controversial law passed six years ago.