Waikato

Potentially deadly shellfish has prompted the government to ban people from collecting in some areas near Waikato River.

A WWII veteran's grave was desecrated in the lead-up to Anzac Day - with the flower bowl smashed and a bronze plaque missing - and is just one of several in South Waikato.

Police are examining the area where a body was found in bush near Thames yesterday afternoon.

The sustainability of New Zealand's tourism industry will be part of the focus of a new United Nations study.

One person has died and two others are injured after a serious crash in Waikato this morning.

A body has been found in the bush near Thames, police say.

Rukuhia Homestead is just south of Hamilton. It's been owned by the Glenn family since 1925 and when Val Glenn moved into what had been her grandparents house, she found a box of letters written…

Two motorcyclists are dead and SH1 is closed in both directions after they collided with a tanker north of Tokoroa.

A woman is in a serious condition and another person is also in hospital after a suspected gas leak in Hamilton.

A Waikato dairy-goat farmer spent the weekend trying to save his 800 goats after floodwater surged over his land, washing out his only access road.

Several houses are being evacuated in Waikato after a river stopbank burst.

Farmers in northern Waikato say they're having to tell the regional council about rivers flooding, instead of the other way around.

A man has been charged with the murder of a woman near Taupō this morning.

A man is being treated in hospital after being assaulted in Ohakuri, south-eastern Waikato, last night.

Christchurch's Heathcote River has burst its banks, while trees and power lines have been brought down in areas of the North Island. Look back our LIVE coverage of the storm here.