Waikato

A company operating an inflatable slide which collapsed while children were playing on it at the Hamilton Gardens has been banned from operating there.

The re-development of a farm has helped a family with a sense of history reach the finals in the country's top Maori farming awards.

The police watchdog has found officers should not have used force against a woman worried about her teenage son at an out-of-control Hamilton party.

While farmers may be used to taking headcounts for stock, they're now being asked to check the number of earth worms in their ground.

Te Awamutu police are appealing for help to identify a vehicle in the attempted abduction of a 12-year-old girl, who escaped by biting her would-be kidnapper.

Doctors are defending the controls around potent medicines, after a Hamilton GP was suspended for prescribing to drug addicts. Audio

The police have launched a homicide inquiry following the death of a 50-year-old woman in Hamilton.

An Ecoblitz combines measuring ecological diversity with enthusing high school students about science and their local environment

Five iwi who own the largest single dairy farming unit in Hauraki have joined with the local high school in a new education farming initiative.

While the community of Raglan is reeling from the death of one of its teenagers, its tradition of bridge jumping looks set to continue.

A teenager who died after jumping from Raglan's Te Kopua footbridge is a local boy, Richard Keremeta. Audio

The police dive squad will this morning join the search for a man who went missing in the Waikato River near Taupo last night.

Three people have been critically injured in a serious crash that closed a major route to Bay of Plenty.