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Waikato police say there may be a link between an armed robbery in last week and other recent armed robberies in Waikato and Bay of Plenty.

The pending signing of the Trans Pacific Partnership dominated the celebrations at Ratana Pa yesterday.

Police in Waikato are warning people with guns to obey safety rules after several cases of owners bringing loaded firearms into shops for repair.

Photo and video images of a man wanted over an armed bank robbery in Te Awamutu yesterday have been released by police. Video

Police are looking for a man who robbed the ASB bank in Te Awamutu with a sawn-off shotgun.

Tourists tried in vain to revive a 41-year-old fisherman after they saw his body in the water on the Coromandel Peninsula.

The Government can't pretend any longer that the huffing problem doesn't exist, says the Drug Foundation.

A young boy who died after being struck by a vehicle in his driveway yesterday morning appears to have released the handbrake or gear lever, police say.

Police are urging people not to mix alcohol and swimming after a man drowned in the Waikato River.

Severe gusts over 140 kilometres per hour have been recorded in Wellington delaying dozens of flights as bad weather continues to lash parts of the country.

A mother who was caught speeding on the Waikato expressway had a seven-year-old child sprawled across her lap and another child lying unrestrained in the front passenger seat.

It took police about 24 hours to recover the body of a man who ignored extreme weather conditions and went canyoning alone in the Kauraeranga Valley near Thames.

A hoax warning of poisonous water in the Waikato river is one of many pranks that keep cropping up, with social media often fuelling the confusion.

More than a dozen people have been injured in multiple crashes in the upper North Island.

Two men have an expensive start to the New Year after police nabbed them sitting out the windows of a moving car and toasting each other with beers over the car roof.

A tourist pulled over on the Waikato Expressway for doing 180kmh thought he was doing only 80kmh, police say.

Another person has been killed during what the Automobile Association says is one of the busiest times on the road New Zealand has had. Audio

As heavy holiday traffic builds up in hot spots around the North Island, 10 people have been injured in a three-car crash near Tepapa.

Rescue teams have called off the search for a 17-year-old swimmer missing near Whanganui since yesterday afternoon, as the holiday drowning toll rises to four.