Waikato

Emergency services were called to the accident on the beach near Ngarunui Beach Road about 2.30pm.

Police say they are aware that a family who went missing for 17 days in south Waikato earlier this year has not been seen for some days.

Five people are injured, three seriously, after a car crashed into a power pole on Burbush Road in Burbush, Hamilton this afternoon.

Waikato Regional Council has allocated an extra $200,000 to drivers as the region, like others, struggles to get enough of them for its services.

Hamilton is moving early to bring in water restrictions for the summer.

The Thames-Coromandel District Council has confirmed it will require all employers - and councillors - to be vaccinated if they are on council premises.

Scotty Newman and his team clean out woolsheds - not inside - but underneath. They dig out decades worth of compacted sheep manure.

Two people were taken into custody after a man with a machete was caught on camera pacing around a busy Tuakau street, yelling at another man.

A cyber security breach that brought Waikato District Health Board to its knees took out one of the country's four regional cancer hubs, prompting the Cancer Control Agency to declare a national…

'Nau mai haere mai'- come and get vaccinated is the call Māori providers are sharing in preparation for this weekend's vaccination haul run by the Waikato District Health Board.

Dave Swney and Alice Trevelyan have converted a tennis court on a dairy farm into a native plant nursery. They're using as much recycled material as they can.

Rabobank is relocating its HQ to Waikato and its CEO insisted the new premises be fitted out with woollen carpet - even if it meant using a crane to lift the rolls onto the fourth floor.

After five years in the planning, work has started on an $80m performing arts theatre in central Hamilton.