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Monday's headlines: Power cut to lower Cuba street for five hours; Green Party to push for law change to decriminalise cannabis; 29kg fleece removed from merino sheep.

A young woman found at the bottom of a motel swimming pool in Hamilton is on life support in Waikato Hospital's intensive care unit.

Five teenagers from Auckland were to appear in the Hamilton Youth Court on Monday after a crime spree in Waikato.

Two overseas tourists have been assaulted at a Waikato camping ground.

Tuesday's headlines: Long-lost wedding ring which recently resurfaced in a Dunedin; drugs found in suitcase by grandmother; total fire ban in Thames, Coromandel and Hauraki.

A motorcyclist has died in Auckland hospital after a crash between his motorbike and a ute in Maramarua, north of Hamilton.

Two brothers have been arrested over the burglary of a liquor store in Cambridge.

Police are crediting modern vehicles and moderate speed with preventing more serious injuries in a crash on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Emergency services freed a seriously injured driver who was trapped inside a truck carrying dangerous goods that crashed in central Waikato on Tuesday morning.

The pilot of a microlight which crashed in Waikato has been airlifted to Waikato Hospital but police say the injuries do not appear to be serious.

A motorcyclist who died when he collided with an oncoming vehicle in Waikato on Saturday night was returning with a group from a tour of the South Island.

Police are investigating after a patrol car collided with another car, injuring the other driver.

Monday's headlines: Motel owners in Christchurch tired of boy racer ''bedlam''; More than 60 beaches reaches from Raglan to the Far North in the past week; pair slain at beach in Libya.

A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a car in Waikato on Saturday night on State Highway One near Taupiri.

Police say most of the party hot spots around New Zealand were largely trouble-free as thousands of people held New Year's celebrations. They are crediting council liquor bans and recently introduced… Audio

The Automobile Association has urged people to organise a safe way home from New Year's celebrations and to have a sober driver. New Zealand is heading towards the lowest road till since 1950.

Police investigating a fatal collision between a bus and a car at a busy city intersection in Hamilton are appealing for witnesses to come forward.

The Transport Agency says there were extensive delays on Friday for motorists leaving Auckland and Wellington.

The police in Waikato say they have located a Matamata man who was involved in a serious crash early on Friday.

Friday's headlines: German couple beaten in their tent early on Boxing Day; Young Person of the Year series in Waikato; retailers struggling to compete with cheaper overseas sites.

Waikato police say they have caught a drink driver two and a half times over the legal limit for alcohol in his breath.

Police in Waikato say a man has been critically injured while trying to defuse an alcohol-fueled row over an arm-wrestling competition.

Emergency services are still at the scene of a vehicle crash on Whiriwhiri Rd, at Otaua in Waikato.

Police in Waikato have gone to 325 domestic violence callouts since the start of December, an average of 17 a day.