Waikato

A father and his six-year-old daughter who left on a sailing trip more than a week ago have not been heard from since.

A two-year-old girl has died after being hit by a car in a driveway in Te Kauwhata.

A new health warning has been issued for Lakes Whangape and Ngaroto, because of algal blooms on the Waikato lakes.

A day off, socks, rain and more money for lamb are just some of things farmers attending this week's Frankton sale wanted in their Christmas stocking

Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta's new role as Ngāti Maniapoto's lead negotiator will not affect her current job, she says.

Parole has been declined for a man who murdered an elderly couple during a home invasion 22 years ago.

A Hamilton real-estate agency has been ordered to pay $1 million for price-fixing.

Police cordons near Taupō's Huka Falls have been removed after the area was blocked off by armed officers this afternoon.

The Waikato DHB is investigating reports of a doctor arriving at work drunk and verbally abusing at least one patient.

The residents of a home hospital in a Coromandel peninsula town can now safely cross the road, after years of pushing for a pedestrian crossing to the beach.

Helen Slattery's rural contracting firm is one in a small network of businesses across New Zealand that collects used plastic wraps from bales of stock feed and sends it for recycling.

Whitianga locals are demanding their harbourmaster be rewarded, not punished, after he was stood down for using a council boat to free a trapped orca.

A Hamilton group says it has found homes for more than 800 individuals and families in the last two years.

Two teenagers have appeared in court in relation to a crash that killed four people near Ohaupo, near Cambridge, in June.

Police say they are now satisfied no offence was committed in relation to a suspected child abduction attempt in Hamilton on Friday.

Volunteers negotiated swollen rivers in cold conditions and heavy rain to find the two lost trampers.