Waikato

A helicopter pilot has escaped unharmed after miraculously landing a burning helicopter in a clearing near Taupō.

A Hamilton man killed by police during a raid in July tried to blast an officer with a shotgun before police fired eight shots at him, a watchdog's report says.

Police are treating the death of a 58-year-old grandmother in a house fire in Waikato as a homicide.

A 45-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder over the death of Kim Richmond.

A deadly crash in Hauraki over the weekend is yet another horrific event of a kind that's becoming all too frequent on that stretch of State Highway 2, the district's mayor says.

The body found in a ute recovered from Lake Arapuni in south Waikato is that of missing woman Kim Richmond.

About half of all young Māori children admitted to hospital in Waikato return within six months, a local doctor in charge of a new study says.

A ute found in a lake is believed have been driven by missing Waikato woman Kim Richmond before she disappeared almost a year ago.

Police divers are searching Lake Arapuni in Waikato today for a woman missing for almost a year.

A woman has been rescued from a gorge in Taupō, after her car plunged down a near-vertical cliff.

The Tribal Huk leader was sentenced for weapons possession after a gang-led campaign to rid the Waikato town of meth dealers.

With the feijoa season drawing to a close one farmer in Waikato says he has 40 percent less fruit than last year.

A man has died of gunshot wounds in Hamilton and a woman has been charged.

Police are investigating after a man died from a gunshot wound at a property in Hamilton on Tuesday evening.

The first property found with the potentially devastating plant disease has been cleared to reopen.