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An officer called out after a mentally disturbed patient escaped from hospital before killing a former neighbour says he should have taken the escape more seriously.

The last person to see a mentally ill woman before she killed her neighbour with a hammer was frightened when the woman came to her home just before the attack.

Farmers want politicians to get serious about rustling and impose harsher penalties for stealing or slaughtering stock. Two North Otago farms have been hit in the past week.

A mentally ill woman who escaped from Waikato Hospital's mental health unit told staff she wanted to kill her neighbour, an inquest in Hamilton has been told. Audio

The mother of Auckland teenager Jane Furlong, who died 20 years ago, is struggling to accept that police are winding down their homicide investigation without an arrest. Audio

A woman has died after her car hit a horse in Waikato.

The police say five men whose dinghy capsized in the Waikato River on the way back to Hamilton from Fieldays on Friday night, are lucky to be alive. They were without life jackets.

A suspicious fire in a Waikato home has led to the discovery of a suspected P-lab. Firefighters were called to the Te Kauwhata address just after 7am on Saturday.

Five men whose dinghy capsized were rescued on the Waikato River on Friday night. The men had used the boat to travel to and from Hamilton's Fieldays agricultural fair.

A man has been rescued from the second storey of his burning Waikato home.

A new audit has been launched into the largest provider of kaupapa Maori services to intellectually disabled people which is accused of misspending public money. Audio

Police have charged the driver of a car involved in an intersection collision in South Canterbury that claimed three lives.

Three people are dead after a crash near Rakaia, south of Ashburton, on Saturday afternoon. It's the second fatal crash this holiday weekend.

One person has died and three more have been injured in a car crash on State Highway 25 on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Police have arrested seven people after a pursuit on Auckland's southern motorway.

A man is dead after he was buried by a slip in a trench where he was working on a pipe.

A roadside reserve on State Highway 1 next to Lake Karapiro in Waikato is closed after drug manufacturing equipment was discovered by a member of the public.

Hamilton police are "gutted" after a woman was seen breastfeeding in a moving car - just days after a crash claimed the life of an unrestrained baby.

Police in Waikato are looking for a man they say has breached his home detention order, warning he's dangerous and should not to be approached.